Talk:Milo Minderbinder

Got out of flying
milo was one of the three (or four) to get out of flying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wblakesx (talk • contribs) 22:14, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Eggs from Sicily
What about the eggs from Sicily? That was a major plot point about how Milo sold them for less than he bought them, and yet made a profit. 203.26.177.2 16:17, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

The man's name is Milo, so how is it "Milo for short"? It's just his name, not an abbreviation! BobThePirate 18:51, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

THe book goes into great detail of Milo's operations about how he bought the eggs for 7cents and sold them for 5 at a two cents profit. There are considerable explanations about him 'cutting out the middle man' etc to somehow manage the incredible feat of producing a profit given the counterintuitive logic of the sale.

Yes, if i remember the way it worked was he would buy them with army dollars for 7 cents from himself, since he was the governor of whatever town he purchased from, and then sell it back to the army for 5 cents, so he'd profit two cents by overcharging the army. Thats the best job my memory can do, if anyone can correct that great.
 * Yeah, that's it! I had been wondering that myself for a while. 68.168.80.4 22:27, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Nately's Death
Hmmmm, I'm pretty sure Nately didn't die when Milo bombed Pianosa.

"What's good for...."
I added a segment about how Milo's catch-phrase, "What's good for M&M enterprises is good for the country", which ironically mirrors a phrase Mussolini used a lot, "What's good for Fiat is good for Italy". Might just be me, but there is definetly a link between the two, especially since the squadron is in Italy during World War 2...

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 * This is actually not a reference to Fiat/Italy/Mussolini, but to the U.S. and GM, see Heller quote in interview cited. --Minderbinder-de (talk) 09:07, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

This wiki states that the GM line is a misquote. Haven't done any other research, however. Charles_Erwin_Wilson —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.3.41.68 (talk) 19:17, 3 November 2010 (UTC)


 * The quote attributed to Charlie Wilson is a common misquote. What Wilson said in his testimony was: "For years I thought that what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa." (See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Erwin_Wilson) The actual quote, however, is not as pithy as the misquote, which is why the misquote is used everywhere. MaxwellPerkins (talk) 22:24, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Milo's admiration for Yossarian
His admiration for Yossarian is first based on a letter that Yossarian has from Doc Daneeka;

And Yossarian also did not understand why Milo needed so desparately to invest in the letter from Doc Daneeka, which came right to the point. ‘Give Yossarian all the dried fruits and fruit juices he wants,’ Doc Daneeka had written. ‘He says he has a liver condition.’

‘A letter like this,’ Milo mumbled despondently, ‘could ruin any mess officer in the world.’ Milo had come to Yossarian’s tent just to read the letter again, following his carton of lost provisions across the squadron like a mourner. ‘I have to give you as much as you ask for. Why, the letter doesn’t even day you have to eat all of it yourself.’

‘And it’s a good thing it doesn’t,’ Yossarian told him, ‘because I never eat any of it. I have a liver conidtion.’

Many Errors
There are several errors on this page including:

- In Catch-22 Milo did not replace the life vests with shares in M & M but actually replaced the CO2 cylinders used to inflate the vests. He did not replace the cylinders with shares but with notes.

- In Catch-22 Milo was not given a court-martial.

Amateur Art
I removed the laughable "portrait" for want of a better word. --Minderbinder-de (talk) 21:55, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Not a parody of capitalism (not even corrupt crony-capitalism)
Milo's enterprise is set up like a government-sponsored enterprise. Milo produces nothing. He takes from others and claims it is for their own good. Compare M&M Enterprises to Fannie Mae, or better yet, Social Security. The politicians take money from paychecks and spend it immediately to win their own re-elections and to enrich themselves. With one hand they write an IOU from "ourselves" (tax-payers) to "ourselves"(tax-spenders). And "everyone has a share." Milo's scheme eventually goes broke, and everyone with a "share" is out of luck.

This article is mostly unattributed opinion, and in my opinion, mostly wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.36.150.245 (talk) 05:25, 6 April 2013 (UTC)


 * So investment banking, import/export, shipping, financial services, arbitrage, and all of the other manifestations of a successful advanced capitalist economy are actually "not capitalism", because they produce nothing. Got it. Adam Smith might actually agree, but no modern businessman, economist, theorist, or talk-radio defender of capitalism would (nor would any critic of capitalism). --157.131.246.136 (talk) 01:45, 19 May 2019 (UTC)