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Originally Posted by jrjr729
Hey Boomer,
Forget the Beanie babies and Pez dispensers. Try calculators, instead. after teaching college for over thirty-six years I can tell you that calculators will be in great demand if there is a major collapse. Nobody can do simple arithmetic anymore. .................
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Uh oh, jrjr,
I was just about to move forward today with my real life, where I talk to people I can actually see, when I looked back and saw your post, fellow utilities fan.
I am known to digress a little from time to time. Never could color inside the lines. And when I saw this part of your post, I thought, "Ohhhhhhhh, I just have to make sure this person knows about this story. I cannot leave this morning until I make sure."
So here goes......
If you do not already know about a short story "The Feeling of Power" written by Isaac Asimov, a long time ago, then you absolutely must get your hands and eyes on it. You will love/hate it. It is about exactly what you just said.
I am not a huge science fiction fan, but I know a little bit about some of the biggie sci-fi authors from the last century. And I always say that good science fiction makes the reader stop and think, "Could this really come true?" And then the reader looks around the present for signs that it could. But then the reader could start to lose a lot of sleep. Kind of like reading Orwell.
So anyway, if you have not read this story, please, oh please, get thee to a library and find it. This one's for you, jrjr.
And now I must get back to acting like I am talking about investments in this post so as not to digress way too far and be accused of being an English major. Soooo, about those dividends.......
Boomer
