# Capitalism thread disappeared?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitalism-thread-disappeared/1012534>\
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**Created:** [January 3, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitalism-thread-disappeared/1012534 "2025-01-03T20:01:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitalism-thread-disappeared/1012534/41 "2025-01-04T19:58:43Z")

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> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> It makes me sad when people refer to concepts as coming from a movie/TV adaptation and not the original written source. The phrase comes from _It’s a Good Life_ by Jerome Bixby.

That story is included _The Science Fiction Hall of Fame_ which is a must-read for any SF fan.

Trivia note: the editor of that book, Robert Silverberg, has now outlived (by ten years) all twenty-seven of the authors whose stories were included.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitalism-thread-disappeared/1012534/42 "2025-01-04T20:56:13Z")

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I guess he wants all the royalties for himself. Can he account for his whereabouts on the 27 days those various authors died? 😉

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitalism-thread-disappeared/1012534/43 "2025-01-04T20:59:40Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> We watched what we caught from the sky. Northerners, surviving on natural means.

Which was, for the most part, snow. 😉

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitalism-thread-disappeared/1012534/44 "2025-01-04T21:36:00Z")

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Then someone had to adjust the rabbit ears.

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitalism-thread-disappeared/1012534/45 "2025-01-04T22:17:57Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> I guess he wants all the royalties for himself. Can he account for his whereabouts on the 27 days those various authors died? 😉

Died? They are all hanging out with the crows and the stalks and the weevils.

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**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitalism-thread-disappeared/1012534/46 "2025-01-04T22:31:20Z")

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> [@Tamerlane](#):
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> Apparently Canadian stations just didn’t buy the rights back then and then flog the show ad nauseam like in the states.

Not much point. As mentioned, we didn’t have cable much in the 60s and 70s, but a lot of us were close enough to the border to catch a US station or two\*. If you lived farther north, that was less of an option.

\*We even had jokes about it, "How does every _\>Station name from Upstate New York\<_ news broadcast start? ‘An Irondequoit man was found dead today…’ "

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitalism-thread-disappeared/1012534/47 "2025-01-04T22:41:03Z")

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> [@Horatius](#):
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> \*We even had jokes about it, "How does every _\>Station name from Upstate New York\<_ news broadcast start? ‘An Irondequoit man was found dead today…’ "

Either that, or “Topping tonight’s Eyewitness News—Fire in North Tonawanda!”

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**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitalism-thread-disappeared/1012534/48 "2025-01-05T02:27:06Z")

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> [@Saint\_Cad](#):
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> It’s good that you said that Darren\_Garrison.

Even better with the emphasis as it was written in the story (as I recall):

“It’s _good_ that you said that Darren\_Garrison”

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