Commentator Douglas Rushkoff says it's the investors themselves, not the dot-com innovators, who are to blame for the big losses they sustained when Internet companies flopped. Commentator Dinesh D'Souza suggests growing inequality is a reflection of something that is right with the economy, rather than something wrong. He says the experience was mesmerizing. Commentator Reynolds Price remembers how the sighting of a famous and nimble couple relieved him of the depression from which he was suffering. The community has changed.
Trains passing through now carry commuters rather than goods from the town's factories.
Without the signs, he says, it would be easy to see the privilege of the town without understanding how it came to be. She knows the drill well, having pulled a similar trick herself as an undergraduate. So she wants proof.