At 6:20 the old lady had a pulmonary embolism caused by the fracture in the large bone. It's a common issue in large bone fractures when the marrow and blood contact each other and is usually referred to as a fatty embolism.It can kill you instantly.
Atlas shrugged was written in the 1950s, and here the speaker relating these events is talking about something that happened a decade or more ago. Readers of the novel back when it was published would have picked up right away that the events the speaker is talking about likely occurred in the midst of the Great Depression, and other jobs were not, in fact, so easy to find at that time. This is one case in which the passage of time since a book's debut robs it of critical context to make part of the plot work, something the novel's original readers would not need to be told.
@beastinblack Capitalism was doing just find until those three nuts showed up with their plan of social nirvana. I will take Capitalism any day of the week.
0:50 - best line in the book. "Babies was the only item of production that didn't fall..." I laughed so hard the first time I read that.
Good narrator. The line at 6:24 gave me chills.
At 6:20 the old lady had a pulmonary embolism caused by the fracture in the large bone. It's a common issue in large bone fractures when the marrow and blood contact each other and is usually referred to as a fatty embolism.It can kill you instantly.
"The Twenty-First Century American Country."~Fixed the title
Look how the farmers have fallen, because we pay them to allow food to rot on the ground!
@mustang607 That's what Ayn Rand intended it to be. She stated the very purpose of the book was to prevent it from becoming prophetic.
But actually it had happened in the late 30's. It was called "the strike of capital".
The best workers did leave for other companies, as he says.
Just change Family for Government and you have our world in 2022
What brothers? The bum's and moocher's?
Dear Amerikidz: I don't even know you but I love you. That is all. :)
That's Alica "Ayn Rand" Rosenbaum for you - great ideas, overly long-winded, and occasionally she does off the deep end.
Don't we all. Great Art comes from that.
@DRitz78 Socialism - The radical idea of state sponsored theft
This is true, but the author didn't think much of sharing either, in spite of the fact that others had helped her.
She had no problem with sharing, or any other voluntary exchange. She was against coercion and force to the end of means. I'm in wit dat.
Great parable, but there were plenty of othe rauto companies back then - they could have left.
Atlas shrugged was written in the 1950s, and here the speaker relating these events is talking about something that happened a decade or more ago. Readers of the novel back when it was published would have picked up right away that the events the speaker is talking about likely occurred in the midst of the Great Depression, and other jobs were not, in fact, so easy to find at that time. This is one case in which the passage of time since a book's debut robs it of critical context to make part of the plot work, something the novel's original readers would not need to be told.
@beastinblack Capitalism was doing just find until those three nuts showed up with their plan of social nirvana. I will take Capitalism any day of the week.
EXACTLY!🥳🥰🙏 Thank you.
amen to that.
She doesn't like babies or children, does she?
She wrote favorably about young adults in Atlas Shrugged.
Socialism - The radical idea of sharing
I think you meant Socialism - Forcing others to "share"
Socialism: allowing greed to be played out in a system where you don't need to return a favour.