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Not trying to critique anything, but it seems like engine itself is also useless without the rest of the parts.
by qrian 7y ago
Not trying to critique anything, but it seems like engine itself is also useless without the rest of the parts.
- Avshalom 7y agoThat is point. The wheels, the engine, the frame, hundreds of other things... You can't point to one part a car and say "that's the bit that actually gets us from point a to point b" (It's also a jab at the intellectual bankruptcy of Atlas Shrugged)
- qrian 7y agoI am still confused. So are you implying the engineers who think they are the engine of the world incorrect or not?
- Avshalom 7y agoOh, Sorry. It's a really shaky rhetorical flourish if you don't instinctively associate "the engine of the world" with Atlas Shrugged, Galts Gulch and the criticisms thereof. In plainer English: it's not a swipe at engineers, it's a swipe at engineers who think they few highly skilled individuals produce the majority of the economic output of the world.