[YankeeReb]

Overhead expenses and profits would be capped at 15 percent. ...

Does anyone else feel we're living Atlas Shrugged?

[Publius]

Directive 10-289:

1. All workers are bound to their jobs and can neither leave nor be fired under penalty of one year in prison. The Unification Board, reporting to the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources, possesses judicial authority. All citizens upon turning 21 must register with the Unification Board which will assign them jobs in the best interests of the nation.
2. All businesses must remain in operation and cannot close under penalty of nationalization and confiscation of property.
3. All patents and copyrights are to be turned over to the government by the use of “voluntary” Gift Certificates. The Unification Board will license those processes to all applicants to eliminate monopolies. All brand names and private trademarks are abolished.
4. No new inventions shall be produced or invented. The Patent Office is suspended.
5. All business establishments will produce the same amount every year as they did in the baseline known as the Yardstick Year, to be enforced by the Unification Board.
6. All citizens must purchase the same amount of goods every year as they did in the Yardstick Year, to be enforced by the Unification Board.
7. All wages and prices are frozen.
8. All cases arising from this directive are to be decided by the Unification Board.

[Hardastarboard]

Yes, I’m reading it now. It’s freaky how parallel the book is to Zero’s governing style and our society. There’s even a “You didn’t build that” type quote in it. It is literally shocking how closely it parallels.