Fortune 1983 - The Monday Morning Memo

Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Buick, and Pontiac, all in a row. This is the cover of Fortune, August 22, 1983.

(I guess this idea looked a lot better on a spreadsheet in a boardroom…)

– Indy

“In the Age of Bronze, when a canny few discovered the science of metallurgy, how long did it take them to fashion coins, crowns, and swords? That unholy trinity to which the common man was enslaved for the next one thousand years. Then came the Age of Iron – and with it the steam engine, the printing press, and the gun. Here was very different trinity, indeed. For while these tools had been developed by the Bourgeoisie to further their own interests, it was through the engine, the press, and the pistol that the Proletariat began to free itself from labor, ignorance, and tyranny.”

- A Gentleman in Moscow, p. 85

Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Buick, and Pontiac, all in a row. This is the cover of Fortune, August 22, 1983.

(I guess this idea looked a lot better on a spreadsheet in a boardroom…)

– Indy

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