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Cavyherd on Nostr: "...And she utterly failed to consider how many tycoons are conmen who would sooner ...

"...And she utterly failed to consider how many tycoons are conmen who would sooner shoot John Galt and smash his machine than let free energy threaten their profits."

It'd be fascinating to see how her thesis would have evolved differently if she was born a hundred years later.

Edit: So basically, #AtlasShrugged is Russian Revolution & Communism trauma. That makes her thesis make •much• more sense. Doesn't make the model track, but that's a dif question.