Atlas Shrugged: Fiat Motors<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\nDwight Sanders:<\/b> Man pig farming is easy, especially with this super tractor that I invented.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> I\u2019m not\u2026 tractors don\u2019t really have anything to do with pig farming.
\nDwight Sanders:<\/b> Well I mean\u2026 it\u2019s farming right? So\u2026 tractor.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Pig farming, actually scratch that, all farming is a time consuming and labor intensive process. When done by individuals without hired help it basically takes up all of your daily life to manage. Which is part of the reason I don\u2019t do it as I have more important things to do with my time, like conquering small countries.
\nDwight Sanders:<\/b> Well that\u2019s if you\u2019re a farmer. But seeing as we\u2019re captains of industry, with a super tractor I likely rent to everyone to use for a quarter because we\u2019re all so great at financing, we are obviously better farmers than people who have devoted their lives to farming.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> You realize that there\u2019s more to farming that tractors right? Like a lot more? I mean the tractor tills and helps with a lot of other tasks but you still have to\u2026 build barns and silos and cultivate crops and harvest and store goods and deal with pest control and \u2026 I mean I don\u2019t even know beyond that. Again I\u2019m more the conquering type but even I know that to have a solid agricultural base for a community people can\u2019t just do it as a hobby.
\nDwight Sanders:<\/b> Yes but since this tractor is twice as fast as a regular tractor we\u2019ve got plenty of time to knock through all the other stuff. Probably only takes like\u2026 what a lazy weekend.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Twice as fast? That\u2026 that is both impossible and it doesn\u2019t even make sense in the first place.
\nDwight Sanders:<\/b> Of course it\u2019s not impossible, I build airplanes, so obviously I can build tractors. Same thing.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Tractors are designed by companies who specialize in building tractors and have built tractors in competition with other tractor building companies since tractors have existed. They construct these tractors using factories specifically designed for making tractors! And you\u2019re implying that\u2026 just in your spare time you could have always designed a better tractor? And not just like some custom tractor but one that is literally twice as good as ones on the market? And sorry not just designed but built, by hand, using whatever you happened to have lying around?
\nDwight Sanders:<\/b> Of course. I own an airplane company.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Well you should have owned a tractor company! You are\u2026 you are the worst capitalist ever!
\nDwight Sanders:<\/b> I\u2019m an amazing capitalist!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> No you\u2019re not! Before you ever came here you were supposed to be fighting tooth and nail for profit, and here you could have built something that, acc ording to you, is basically a magic invention all by yourself and sold it for ludicrous profits but you never did because\u2026 why?
\nDwight Sanders:<\/b> Well I was\u2026 too busy\u2026 owning an airplane company.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> But you also build and manage airplanes here, while pig farming. So clearly you had plenty of time to do something like this.
\nDwight Sanders:<\/b> Okay so maybe I just didn\u2019t know I could build an awesome tractor until pig farming, which again is very tractor dependent, taught me what I needed to know about farming.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Well that brings us back to the part that doesn\u2019t make sense. You\u2019re saying your tractor is twice as fast as an ordinary tractor but\u2026 tractors are built to go at low speeds.
\nDwight Sanders:<\/b> That\u2019s impossible! Everything is better if it\u2019s faster.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> You can\u2019t till fields at 60 miles an hour you dolt!
\nDwight Sanders:<\/b> Clearly we do, because we\u2019re so good at farming we figured out that it was better to do it that way and everyone should have been doing that.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> So your story is that, by hand with no assistance, you\u2019ve maintained multiple aircraft, run a productive pig farm that services a small community, designed, constructed, maintained, and managed rentals for a super tractor that is better than any other tractor that companies devoted to making tractors have ever made while also still being a stupid idea because it does things no proper farmer would ever want a tractor to do, and even with all of that you have time to be all folksy and full of free time to kick back and enjoy life.
\nDwight Sanders:<\/b> Regular farmers must be just terrible people. It\u2019s the only logical explanation.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Somehow I feel like logic has done it\u2019s best to steer far, far away from this place. Also I\u2019m stealing your super tractor.
\nDwight Sanders:<\/b> But you don\u2019t even like it!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> It\u2019s not the profit of the crime, it\u2019s the principal of the thing! Namely that I hate you and I want you to be sad.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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