This is exactly the plot of Atlas Shrugged. Government-bedded rail deliberately creates arbitrary restrictions that have no benefit but coincidentally destroy harvesting ability. They specifically set an arbitrary limit on how much each train could carry. I used to think Rand was off by making railroads the backbone, but she was more prophetic than we give her credit for!
Really?
I got only about 25% of the way through that shockingly poorly written book (A Rand just could not write to save herself), but now wish my stomach was much stronger.
The ideas are fine - piled on with a front-end loader, no idea about style or subtlety - but there's something wrong with every sentence, and the dialogues, oh, my.
All according to the plan ..
Yep. First they poisoned and held the "air ports" for 19 years.
This is exactly the plot of Atlas Shrugged. Government-bedded rail deliberately creates arbitrary restrictions that have no benefit but coincidentally destroy harvesting ability. They specifically set an arbitrary limit on how much each train could carry. I used to think Rand was off by making railroads the backbone, but she was more prophetic than we give her credit for!
Wow. Read it a long time ago, need to re-read.
Interesting
Really? I got only about 25% of the way through that shockingly poorly written book (A Rand just could not write to save herself), but now wish my stomach was much stronger. The ideas are fine - piled on with a front-end loader, no idea about style or subtlety - but there's something wrong with every sentence, and the dialogues, oh, my.