What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS 2046

I did not say it was a bad thing. I said Congress splitting up the business into illogical sectors is very bad. Especially when the maintenance of the most important part of the country's infrastructure is involved. When you create a Commodity Board Exchange trading instrument that has no (how can I say this?) 1::1 buttociation with reality, you get an Enron. The game no longer dealt with power distribution but with derivatives of the derivatives of that power distribution.

Of course. That is making a 1::1 of a commodity with reality. Enron got out of business very quickly. They stopped paying attention to their real business and started playing Monopoly.

No, you haven't kept track of the ripples that has caused. Instead of putting money into maintaining the infrastructure, the money went into a derivative bank account and did no productive work.

I've not heard of these. It sounds like some of the ripples I talked about.

Communism is government enforcing socialism. Socialism is an economy where (supposedly) all people share the wealth by getting everything for "free".

What I have never understood is their thinking; if everybody in the world had a million dollars, everybody would be poor.

BAH

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