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Books about people who had unrealistic, utopian visions of the world yet managed to make significant strides towards achieving their goals.
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>>25636284
What's the book about?
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>>25636877
It's about the Walt Disney and how he reshaped the American media industry. There's also a huge part about how he hated being an entertainer towards the end of his life and wanted to be a Henry Ford or Thomas Edison like figure. Disney World was originally meant to be a relatively small tourist trap in a permanent city in Florida called EPCOT that was always 25 years ahead in technology and with a permanent population of around 60k people. He died before they could begin, so Disney World was made into a theme park with EPCOT as a smaller park. If he had lived another ten years there's a good chance it could have actually happened the way he wanted.
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>>25636958
His plan was not really viable. A company town where you're not allowed to own a car?
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>>25636877
About a guy trying to capture a consumerist market at the earliest of ages
>>25636958
>how he reshaped the American media industry
The talents he hired offered fun and beautiful pieces of art. He was just the moneybags
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>>25637165
Not saying it would have been viable, but Walt would have definitely tried to make it work.
>>25637198
Walt was directly creatively involved with every single project produced during his lifetime, even if he didn't always come up the concept of a project himself. He also had an eye for quality and implementing new technologies that many of his employees simply didn't have. If anything, Roy was the finance guy.
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Very Reddit coded thread I've clicked on here. Maybe I was the Redditor all along.
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>>25637256
>wanting to reshape the world based on your ideas is Reddit.
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>>25637249
I could have done the same.



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