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Hank Rearden found alive but under arrest in Siberia

Posted by j_IR1776wg 6 years, 9 months ago to Government
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It seems Rearden was hiding out under the alias Dmitri Trubitsyn a 36-year old physicist-entrepreneur in Akademgorodok, Siberia. His "...company, Tion, manufactures high-tech air-purification systems for homes and hospitals, is accused of risking the lives of hospital patients, and trying to lift profits by upgrading the purifiers so they would consume less electricity. Most important, he is accused of doing this without state regulators certifying the changes..." His crime was "...leading a criminal conspiracy to, essentially, innovate too fast and too freely."
He is currently under house arrest.

This seems like is was torn from the pages of Atlas Shrugged but it was a New York Times front page story from the Thursday August 10, 2017 issue.

Perhaps the ultimate collapse will occur when the fiction of Ayn Rand and the reality of collectivist government have completely converged?

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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hey, I'll take the money to create a superior power supply. A new electrical storage devices, which then I could make a profit.
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  • Posted by hvance 6 years, 9 months ago
    When you think that you have heard nearly everything........along comes this.
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's possible he didn't pay off the right bureaucrat. Do you know if Russia has copyright or patent protection for individuals?
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 6 years, 9 months ago
    Is it possible that this is a real offense for changing the design, removing relevant pieces without a license? Some digging identifies their may be mis information in the article.
    Here is a more complete article than the NYT https://en.crimerussia.com/gromkie-de... The whole place sounds shifty.
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  • Posted by chad 6 years, 9 months ago
    Interesting how people like to construe the differences between themselves to demonstrate superior system of collectivism of one group versus another. Headline in USA: Russia jails innovator for innovating. Headline In USSR: America jails entrepreneur for building a business without EPA impact statement. It is a matter of degree and how long it takes to imprison the offender.
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  • Posted by fosterj717 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Bureaucratic mentality runs rampant in these "
    institutions of higher learning". They are now as corrupt as the "Progressive" Snowflake society that they have promote for so long! why should we be surprised by such a corrupt herd mentality taking hold?
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 9 months ago
    If this is typical, and I think it ts, we'll never need fear Russia economically, so long as we don't emulate them. It makes it obvious why Russia must resort to the use of force in order to make any progress. It will also show up in the attitudes of other collectivist ideologies.
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  • Posted by wiggys 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    now if he were making electric cars or wanting to colonize mars they would give him all the money he would ask for and then some.
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes. The only difference between the governments of Russia and America is one of degrees. If Dmitri Trubitsyn was American, the EPA would forced him to spend millions in compliance costs and fines. The IRS would have audited and taxed him into bankruptcy. His technology would have been co-opted by crony capitalists with friends in high places and unlimited millions with which to pay lawyers. He probably would not be under house arrest and facing jail time. At least not as of today.
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  • Posted by wiggys 6 years, 9 months ago
    the reality is that collectivist government is here now!
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I too have had the same experience. I wonder if the majority of people on earth have such a deep-seated desire to be normal and define normal as doing and acting and thinking as they perceive everyone else does? If they do, then anyone who does not conform is labeled as different and must be punished. By their definition, the innovator is not normal - does not conform.
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  • Posted by diessos 6 years, 9 months ago
    I work at a public university. They also say they want innovation but I have been labeled as an upstart and a loose cannon for actually coming up with innovative ideas....
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 6 years, 9 months ago
    I read it in The New York Times at my local library. It was on the front page of Thursday August 10, 2017 issue. The title of the article was "Russia Wants Innovation, but Jails Innovators"
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