Atlas Shrugged is characteristically dystopian. Reading the book will not change this fact: >The book depicts a dystopian United States in which private busin

Atlas Shrugged is characteristically dystopian. Reading the book will not change this fact: >The book depicts a dystopian United States in which private businesses suffer under increasingly burdensome laws and regulations. Railroad executive Dagny Taggart and her lover, steel magnate Hank Rearden, struggle against "looters" who want to exploit their productivity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged Prodigious nationalization and planned labor is the entire premise for Rand's arguments in the book.