'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years

Re:'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years by mmmurf on Saturday January 10, 2009 @01:33PM (#428146)

Note: Rand doesn't care how productive someone is, only that he/she attempts to actually be productive. Obviously there is great variation in how productive (in an absolute and economic sense) that individual humans can be. The point is that some people strive to produce while some strive to take power over others.

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Re:'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years by walterk on Saturday January 10, 2009 @02:38PM (#428239)

Right, but there are also many who are simply discouraged from striving at all, possibly jaded. Rand never considers the forces behind this fact: she simply casts them as villains.

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Re:'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years by mmmurf on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:50PM (#428471)

I wouldn't say that. Have you read any of Rand's books?

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Re:'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years by walterk on Sunday January 11, 2009 @02:04AM (#428935)

Yes. Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.

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