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At the end of Atlas Shrugged, one laborer with a name (Eddie Willers) is left abandoned on the tracks, presumably left to die in the collapse.
by entwife 7y ago
At the end of Atlas Shrugged, one laborer with a name (Eddie Willers) is left abandoned on the tracks, presumably left to die in the collapse.
- roenxi 7y agoYes, but not because he was a labourer. Rand was pretty hamfisted with that sort of thing, it was clearly intended to represent that he was devoting all he had to the redistributive types and that they were unable to give him anything meaningful in return. If he'd been labouring for the people Ayn liked instead of the ones she didn't he'd have lived to a happy and ripe old age. Which is the point of the book - what determined people's fate in the story was largely how they interacted with the people who wanted redistributive policies.