Yes, the Bell Curve IS symmetrical.

While it saddens me tremendously, I think that someone just took a long hard look at just the numbers in a 'knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing' kind of way and thought that there are just not enough people in the right hand tail of the Bell Curve to justify spending so much on them.

Neglecting to notice the assymetric 'value' that people in the right hand tail bring to the population as a whole.

Become what you are