Dude, the main premise of the book breaks down into a paragraph. "Producers, not paid enough, go galt, government can't replace them, society collapses." That

Dude, the main premise of the book breaks down into a paragraph. "Producers, not paid enough, go galt, government can't replace them, society collapses." That's 12 words. We're all intelligent here and can follow that reasoning to it's implications for our world. Now you can argue that someone needs to read the full novel and all of the not-real-world alt-historic details in order to understand that, yes, in that world completely imagined by Ayn Rand, her philosophy would make sense. But that says nothing about the applicability of the main point to the world we actually live in. If this is a discussion about fan-fiction rather than political economy, I'll yield the floor.