We, the people who do the work around this country, have decided that regardless of what happens to your stock market, we will stay here in our little cubicles and our factories and our hospitals earning a living by creating legitimate products and providing useful services.

We choose to earn money not with money, as do those of you on The Street, but with work.

We no longer fear displeasing the stockholders of corporations, for if there is no us, there is no you. Should our companies require capital for growth, we will direct them to the bank downtown for a loan. We cannot see paying you a cushy lifetime of dividends when our employers require resources only occasionally.

Too often you have taken food from the table of the employee for the benefit of the unemployed leisure class. Enough.

We think you should go away now, and we would like to see you learn a trade. Perhaps something involving work with real bulls or real bears. Plumbing is good, too; everybody needs plumbing. As there will no longer be a Wall Street to skim money off the top of the economic pyramid, the prices of the wares and services we all create will soon drop dramatically, so you won’t need to earn much. Give it a try, and report back in 6 months. You’ll know where to find us. We’ll be at work.