Prophetic

"... Disunity, that's the trouble. It's my absolute opinion that in our complex industrial society, no business enterprise can succeed without sharing the burden of the problems of other enterprises... It's been proved that every business depends upon every other business. So everybody ought to share the burden of everybody else.
"... My purpose is the preservation of a free economy. It's generally conceded that free economy is now on trial. Unless it proves its social value and assumes its social responsibilities, the people won't stand for it. If it doesn't develop a public spirit, it's done for, make no mistake about that... The only justification of private property is public service."

Those words weren't uttered today by Orren Boyle during a coffee klatsch in Greenwich, Connecticut in the presence of all manner of hedge fund managers. In fact, Mr. Boyle is not even real; he exists only in the fictive realm of a novel that came out in 1943. (It goes without saying that some people who have the same birth year as Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged should now be enjoying their senior citizenship but can scarcely do so on account of having invested their retirement money in the stock market.)