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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Aussi ✧  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: OT mostly: forevers
Date: 02/22/26 5:23 PM
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Mostly forever.

Kodak, people will always be taking pictures of babies

AT&T, people will always need phones and businesses are getting more and more phones.

Perhaps Pan Am or Montgomery Ward.

Oh sorry wrong decade for forecasting!

Railroads get about 10% of revenue from hauling coal. With robots that can be located anywhere and training is completed by a software download, I think manufacturing will become distributed rather than centralised. Both effects will have an impact on rails. Food distribution will continue but could be accomplished by trucking.

Energy, by 2055 in my opinion is unlikely to be provided by oil and gas except in niche situations. Flight? Still required for chemicals, but overall, a rapidly declining sector.

I don't think forecasting for 30 years is any better and probably worse than a dartboard.

Aussi
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