Say what?! anniemal may have picked it up and quoted it, but I indisputably wrote it. I'm sorry, but I was there at the time.
The context was my entry on Progress Rail (a rail salvage company) and how the destruction of streetcar and interurban rail rolling stock and equipment between 1930 and 1960 was an incredible waste of wealth in classical economics terms. It's hard to justify rational markets when, on the one hand, you have an enormous demand for rebuilt and second-hand rail equipment, and on the other hand, you have transit companies burning, shredding, dumping, and dropping in the ocean perfectly serviceable equipment that was often in its first decade or so of a thirty- to forty-plus-year operational lifespan.
As a maker of deathless quotes in d_g's presence, I swear I have no idea whether I said that or not. I might've. I say a lot of things. I'm an opinionated sort of chick.
I find it disconcerting when I'm wrongly attributed quotes. I try to give credit where it's due, but will give voice to a good saying purely on its merit without thinking who said it first. My apologies. It was a saying worth repeating, no?
I'll try to notice when I quote others henceforth. Won't swear I'll succeed. But your words will be propagated.
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The context was my entry on Progress Rail (a rail salvage company) and how the destruction of streetcar and interurban rail rolling stock and equipment between 1930 and 1960 was an incredible waste of wealth in classical economics terms. It's hard to justify rational markets when, on the one hand, you have an enormous demand for rebuilt and second-hand rail equipment, and on the other hand, you have transit companies burning, shredding, dumping, and dropping in the ocean perfectly serviceable equipment that was often in its first decade or so of a thirty- to forty-plus-year operational lifespan.
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Thank goodness that's settled
I'll try to notice when I quote others henceforth. Won't swear I'll succeed. But your words will be propagated.
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