I've been reading Rand's Atlas Shrugged and found it pretty boring and naive. OTOH after a friend of mine reminded that Rand was born in Russia and experienced

I've been reading Rand's Atlas Shrugged and found it pretty boring and naive. OTOH after a friend of mine reminded that Rand was born in Russia and experienced the beginning of its transition into the Soviet Union in the 1920's, I kind of understand her points of view. At that time, some people probably had a very strong belief in communism, not having seen the really dark sides of it yet. And also, some other people probably saw any kind of social democracy as a threat and considered it all the same as communism, not yet having seen the future of increasing economic inequality, the 1% vs. the 99% and all that. It's probably good to hear what Rand has to say, but it should be put in the right context (of more than 50 years in the past). Nowadays our western economic systems have different kinds of problems to tackle.