Apparently the intelligent writers were on strike in 1957.
So we'd all be in a big fix if the likes of John Thain were to go pout in his boudoir for the rest of his days? May the gods spare us! Why we might end up with a seriously fucked up economy. And those wacked-out people at Republic Windows? Sheesh, without the wise counsel of their superiors, they might have done something that would have run the company into the ground. Completely insane.
When capital goes on strike, so long as people can overcome abstractions such as "Property", they show up for work and life goes on.