My comment was meant as a sidebar. I’m not really paying attention to this thread. bchad just likes to take shots at Rand and I’m really not sure if he’s ever read the book.
I’ve never fully gotten through Atlas Shrugged. Then again, I haven’t read the entire Bible either, and that’s only 33% longer. I have managed to get most of the story through discussion and conversation and other reference. We can still get much of Rand’s view on things without knowing every detail of what Taggart did in the Garden of Gethsemane.
So perhaps I misused a detail from that tome, but yaywork understood my point. When you’re writing a work of fiction, you can invent and leave out whatever real processes you want (or didn’t bother to think about). So the fact that repairmen loved the idea of becoming commoditized labor in a winner take all Galtlândia in order to move there doesn’t actually mean that they would see it that way in the real world.
^You’re still misrepresenting the entire point of Atlas Shrugged. I don’t take issue with your overall point, just that you’re misusing Rand to enforce your point.
Ok, fair enough. In Galtlândia, everyone works and is happy, so it was probably a bad example to me use on a real-world issue.