Jobs??? feh...ping. May be of interest to your list.
That Blue Screen of Death seemed to be pretty strong stuff.
A major flaw of Rand’s story in today’s reality is that very few of the creative geniuses who invent the products run their company past the initial phase. There are very few of the industrial giants on Rand’s fiction in the United States today. They are all corporate ladder climbers who work in the system, and they have no reason to go Galt.
And they believe in profit (just not on the books, GE), unlike Rand’s buffoons.
Jobs??? feh...Bill Gates is no Rearden. He’s a “I got mine” type of evil liberal like Readen’s mother.
Here’s an excerpt from the Friedman chapter I posted at http://freedomkeys.com/depression.htm#8 after I got my signed autographed copy in May:
“During the Great Depression, economics had been taken by storm by the British savant John Maynard Keynes. He diagnosed the Depression as a failure of “aggregate demand,” and prescribed massive government spending to stimulate it back to life. This became the dominant paradigm that guided the New Deal and captured the economics profession for decades after. For economics, this was a plunge into what amounts to a dark age. It was as though crisis had erased a century and a half of the economics of reason guided by the enlightened thinking of great minds like Adam Smith. [Dr. Milton] Friedman’s greatest contribution would be a monumental empirical investigation that would prove — not just argue, but prove — that the Keynesian diagnosis of, and prescription for, the Depression was in error.”
— Donald Luskin and Andrew Greta in “The Economist of Liberty”: Chapter 9 of I Am John Galt
Never made it through Rands’ books - sort of like watching that movie that begins with a monkey tossing a rib bone in the air—and the slab of stone. ... and the futuristic space
station and all that. Fell asleep trying to watch that movie three or four times -twice at the movie theater.) Guess I ain’t intellectual enough. But I do like the comic book character Captain America— before he was reencarnated for this latest anti-American rant. And the real life man known once as “Captain America “ — Judge Roy S. Moore —in his early legal opinions was intellect enough.Still have not found any that could refute anything he said in his opine barring homosexual parenting in his State. Best they could do is say it was homophobic.Or that it made them uncomfortable.
Yeah, Gates isn’t fit to carry Reardon’s briefcase. And it’s an insult to Greenspan to compare him to Stadler. Bernanke maybe. I love Rodgers and Friedman as d’Anconia and Akston, though.
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