{"id":57245,"date":"2016-01-25T12:08:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T18:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57245"},"modified":"2016-01-25T12:08:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T18:08:48","slug":"armageddon-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57245","title":{"rendered":"Armageddon Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1985: \u00a0&#8220;IBM is going to dominate the entire world!&#8221;. \u00a0\u00a01995: \u00a0IBM is fading fast.<\/p>\n<p>1995: \u00a0&#8220;Microsoft is going to own the entire world!&#8221; \u00a02005: \u00a0Microsoft has settled into a niche.<\/p>\n<p>2005: \u00a0&#8220;WalMart is going to destroy small business!&#8221;. \u00a02016: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-01-25\/wal-mart-it-came-it-conquered-now-it-s-packing-up-and-leaving\">WalMart seems to be hitting limits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As little as the left seems to trust the market, it seems to be keeping &#8220;monopolies&#8221; pretty well under control.<\/p>\n<p>Who could have foreseen it?<\/p>\n<p>(Answer: \u00a0every single free market conservative).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1985: \u00a0&#8220;IBM is going to dominate the entire world!&#8221;. \u00a0\u00a01995: \u00a0IBM is fading fast. 1995: \u00a0&#8220;Microsoft is going to own the entire world!&#8221; \u00a02005: \u00a0Microsoft has settled into a niche. 2005: \u00a0&#8220;WalMart is going to destroy small business!&#8221;. \u00a02016: \u00a0WalMart seems to be hitting limits. As little as the left seems to trust the market, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57246,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57245\/revisions\/57246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}