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> See also Atlas Shrugged, where the producers keeping the world afloat ("Atlas") decide to go on strike and hide due to populist politics bleeding them dry of

> See also Atlas Shrugged, where the producers keeping the world afloat ("Atlas") decide to go on strike and hide due to populist politics bleeding them dry of their hard work ("shrugged"). And the former aristocrat from Tsarist Russia shrugged, went to America and made mediocre literature and a widely discredited philosophy.

jmeister 5y ago
Atlas Shrugged was the #2 favorite of entrepreneurs and business leaders, after the Bible, according to surveys by Fortune up until the ‘00s. She’s had a profound positive impact on America, sent countless young men and women into entrepreneurship and wealth creation. If we had Ayn Rands today, we’d have discontent youth building alternatives instead of throwing tantrums and destroying.
- quickthrowman 5y ago
  Can you provide a link to the list with Atlas Shrugged at #2? I’m not asking because I don’t believe you, I do believe you. I just want to see the list so I can avoid reading any of the other books on it.
  - JKCalhoun 5y ago
    Oh, stitches, me. Thank you.
- avgcorrection 5y ago
  > Atlas Shrugged was the #2 favorite of entrepreneurs and business leaders, after the Bible, according to surveys by Fortune up until the ‘00s. Could entrepeneurs and business leaders be susceptible to mediocre literature and terrible philosophies/ideologies? (Surely not…)
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- cowpig 5y ago
  > positive impact [citation needed]
- capitalsigma 5y ago
  Atlas Shrugged is a semi-coherent libertarian screed written by someone who fetishized STEM but lacked any hard skills. The characters have the emotional depth of a wet paper bag.
randallsquared 5y ago
Uh, "former aristocrat"? Her father was a business owner before the October Revolution, a class usually pretty distinct from aristocrats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#Early_life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#Early_life
- avgcorrection 5y ago
  Burger, then.

jmeister 5y ago

Atlas Shrugged was the #2 favorite of entrepreneurs and business leaders, after the Bible, according to surveys by Fortune up until the ‘00s. She’s had a profound positive impact on America, sent countless young men and women into entrepreneurship and wealth creation. If we had Ayn Rands today, we’d have discontent youth building alternatives instead of throwing tantrums and destroying.

quickthrowman 5y ago
Can you provide a link to the list with Atlas Shrugged at #2? I’m not asking because I don’t believe you, I do believe you. I just want to see the list so I can avoid reading any of the other books on it.
- JKCalhoun 5y ago
  Oh, stitches, me. Thank you.
avgcorrection 5y ago
> Atlas Shrugged was the #2 favorite of entrepreneurs and business leaders, after the Bible, according to surveys by Fortune up until the ‘00s. Could entrepeneurs and business leaders be susceptible to mediocre literature and terrible philosophies/ideologies? (Surely not…)
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cowpig 5y ago
> positive impact [citation needed]
capitalsigma 5y ago
Atlas Shrugged is a semi-coherent libertarian screed written by someone who fetishized STEM but lacked any hard skills. The characters have the emotional depth of a wet paper bag.

randallsquared 5y ago

Uh, "former aristocrat"? Her father was a business owner before the October Revolution, a class usually pretty distinct from aristocrats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#Early_life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#Early_life

avgcorrection 5y ago
Burger, then.