11

Ayn Rand's prescience strikes again

Posted by $ cyberwizard 11 years ago to Business
48 comments | Share | Flag

When I opened my paper this morning, I thought I was reading Altas Shrugged!

All Comments

  • Posted by johnpe1 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    the railroads are "common carriers" and, to the best
    of my recollection, there is no common carrier whose
    rates are not controlled -- like the utilities boards. -- j

    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    The area with the biggest changes that you didn't mention was healthcare and pharmaceuticals. Very shortly 3D printing is going to make a huge impact.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by khalling 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    this is a very interesting point you have brought up. In Back to the Future I, note the huge differences between the 50s and the 80s. Compare 1985 to today. Yes, we have computers and the internet-but wouldn't you have thought there would have been huge leaps in other areas? house, car, plane design-dentistry for the average citizen?
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Hello Herb7734,
    Hmm... my hardbound is at home in the library. It is probably the same as yours. My paperback from 1992 with tape all over it from being passed around and well read has 1074 pages... it sits on the shelf by my office desk at work.
    Regards,
    O.A.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by Herb7734 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Just looked at my hardbound copy. You're closer than me. I got 1169 pages. Haven't re-read it for about ten years. I think I'll look over my dog-eared, annotated, food-decorated copy as opposed to my pristine-only-opened-once copy.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Don't forget that next year we will be the 30 years forward from the Back to the Future movies. I am still waiting for my hoverboard, but I can do without Biff's casino.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by starznbarz2002 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    More like 1164 pages...took me three months to read it the first time. The woman was a prophetess! Where are the men of action today?
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by Herb7734 11 years ago
    Is that the Twilight Zone music I hear in the background? You might sub-title Atlas Shrugged, Back to the Future. The book is five or six hundred pages, takes some hours to read, but real time moves more slowly. However, the ball is rolling downhill and gathering speed.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by wiggys 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    there is probably enough coal between the 2 states to supply the whole country and half the world for the next 200 plus years. you would think the politicians in these states would actually do something positive, but that IS NOT ABOUT TO HAPPEN!
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Look further down in this thread, and you will see that an unusually dry August is predicted, resulting in the highest soybean prices in nine weeks today.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I was going to say eastern Utah and western Colorado sits on a gigantic coal deposit. It's been a long time, but I once worked in a coal chemistry group.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by wiggys 11 years ago
    I just read in the local grand junction paper that people in towns around grand junction at this moment have no source for coal since the local coal company has been closed since December 2013. thank you 0
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by iroseland 11 years ago
    come to think of it, replace the John Galt line with the Keystone pipeline and we get even closer to the story. Except in this version the John Galt line does not apparently get built.
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by $ Susanne 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    What... you're saying the government planners demanding an earlier harvest for the soybeans are *wrong*? Why, they know far better than we, the farmers, do on harvesting soybeans; the plan is to let them finish maturing on the railcars to the soy food factories so we can beat the predictions made for the current 5 year plan... It doesn't matter if they're still buds, because, by God, we'll order those beans to ripen to OUR schedule... or we'll *really* show them who's boss...
    Reply | Permalink  
  • Posted by Kevlar 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    That's precisely what I was thinking. It's true that the listed cause is different, but despite that, it's startling to think about.
    Reply | Permalink  

  • Comment hidden. Undo