Comments on: Mother of invention

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 18:38:46 +0000

Not thinking just in terms of cost, though. Also just of what is and is not all that common an experience.

By way of setting up the thesis that she had a quite unusual childhood, which may have shaped her child-rearing when her time came.

By: Sam J.

Sam J. — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 17:59:12 +0000

10 Cheapest Planes In The Sky

https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/article/10-cheapest-birds-in-the-sky/

By: Sam J.

Sam J. — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 17:56:01 +0000

“…how many of us get as children to fly around in dad’s private plane looking for a lost city?…”

Older used small planes are cost wise like buying a a quality bass boat. His Dad was an engineer he chose planes over other stuff. I know a guy who owned a small Cessna and he wasn’t rich. He owned a diner and a gas station.

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:27:10 +0000

Well, white South African notwithstanding, that doesn’t sound like an especially privileged upbringing [yes, I know the Afrikaners never were a uniformly overclass population and still aren't] but even so, how many of us get as children to fly around in dad’s private plane looking for a lost city?

Her upbringing, with its combination of rooted and rootless, crossing of two cultures, early achievement, early loss, and ultimate high privilege based on a bedrock of family, sounds rather like Barack Obama’s up to a point.

Given this glowing profile, I assume the Economist has at last given in to its Randian impulses. Though not all would admit it, I think global overclass values are Rand’s values. She does rather look like Dagny Taggart would end up looking.

By: Candide III

Candide III — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 14:48:35 +0000

She looks like the cyborg Director Kasei from Psycho-Pass.

By: Redan

Redan — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 14:14:07 +0000

“As a dietician she has no truck with fads.”

At that point I stopped reading…