Fuori tempo massimo

Così Tomas Friedman sul NYT sull'assurdità del tenativo di salvare il modello automobilistico di Detroit:

[...] our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of dollars of taxpayer money into the mail-order-catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into the CD music business on the eve of the birth of the iPod and iTunes. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into a book-store chain on the eve of the birth of Amazon.com and the Kindle. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into improving typewriters on the eve of the birth of the PC and the Internet. (nytimes.com)

Citato anche su sul Newscientist.com in un articolo dal titolo Why we should let GM and Ford fail.