Atlas Shrugged - Goin' Galt. If you haven't read the book, then watch the movie. Now is the time.

I did it before it was the "cool" thing to do.

I made my "retirement" and logged out.

I pay no taxes, not even property taxes.

If people spent as much time learning how to break their system, and use it to their advantage, as they do bitching about it.. we would not be here.

Saw all this coming light years ahead and prepared for it.

I did it before it was the "cool" thing to do.

I made my "retirement" and logged out.

I pay no taxes, not even property taxes.

If people spent as much time learning how to break their system, and use it to their advantage, as they do bitching about it.. we would not be here.

Saw all this coming light years ahead and prepared for it.

Lol! Ayn Rand's stories are basically virtue signalling capitalist sociopathic propaganda. The 'John Galt' narrative is a classic example of this.

It's hilarious when people observe the current negative aspects of this world - demonstrably much is the result of rampant capitalism, and now fascism - then scream 'it's the socialists!'.

Why do you think the elites worship people like her?

That's the problem with dogma - including capitalist dogma - it leads to extreme selfishness and normalcy bias where people are incapable of realizing their behavior is causing the problems they then complain about.

Of course if we lived in a Communist country I could be writing a similar comment about Communism! The point being - and I will put it crudely - most people are selfish a-holes, and will choose the 'dogma de jeur' that maximizes benefit to them and - more importantly - ignores harm done to others, which under a competitive marketplace, becomes a cruel rationalisation. Then they get confused when the consequences of their actions comes knocking at their front door. What a joke humanity is...

Time to go Galt.

If people haven't read the book, there's a three part series worthy of the watch for understanding and serious contemplation of our current state. I encourage everyone to watch it or re-watch it for a reminder.

Cheers!

Atlas Shrugged
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Thanks for the links. Haven't seen the movie yet. I read the book after John Todd said to read it. He said it was the blueprint for the destruction of the USA.

The company in the book is a metaphor for the welfare system and is how they are going to bankrupt the USA. A brother and sister bought a company and instead of paying people according to their ability, intelligence and production, they instead paid them according to want. Whoever came up with the best sob story each week got paid the most.

Quickly the best workers left. Then the company was left with an inferior workforce that couldn't get the job done, and the company went bankrupt. Such is currently taking place with the welfare, affirmative action and NEW AGE "quota" jobs.

Also, Ayn Rand portrays herself as the heroine in the book, as a fit, attractive, sexy, smart and likable person. Ayn Rand was an ugly troll. She was the mistress of one of the Rothschilds, who gave Ayn the ideas to write about.

Her other well-known book Fountainhead can be summed as "some people matter, and some don't". Those who don't are your slaves and cannon fodder.

In the Greek Mythos, Atlas was the titan/demigod who held the Earth between his shoulders. Atlas Shrugged means that Atlas has cast aside the Earth. Rand was a Satanist and obviously, so are the Rothschilds.