The whole idea of the 1% going on strike and society collapsing

Once upon a time, your ridicule might have persuaded me.
Unfortunately, I became part of the 1%.
This fact annoys and disheartens me every time I realize it, because I'm a loser.
Smart people rise to the top, even if they're losers.
When society drives out the real peak (not the political peak, but the economic one) the ensuing poverty teaches people just how much their productivity was being augmented.

>>135027601
Of course. She is the biggest philosopher since Aristotle.

What other person has even tried to make a complete, closed system of philosophy?

>>135027601
so pretty much admitting the masses should absolute be socialistic and communistic to prevent such things from occuring?

The political elite are false gods and worthless.
The economic elite have real value.
Protip: Anyone who appears to be both is only part of the political elite.

This book is about the individual mind and what happens when it decides to withdraw its power from the world. Plain and Simple.

Ayn Rand didn't intend for a novel to be a philosophy book. You want that you can check out Objectivism.

The book itself is a novel nothing more. Sure you can learn from the characters experiences and withdraw great ideas and reflections of actual real world problems, but to base your life philosophy on it goes against what Ayn Rand thought was right.

Also, to think that Men of the Mind (not the 1% as many think it means) can just go on strike is no very far fetched. When an individual cannot live the way he wants to he has the option to just go along with life as a zombie rather than adding any value to this earth. He can starve the world of any new ideas.

THAT is the basis for Atlas Shrugged. Anyone who thinks otherwise is reading what he wants to read in this novel

>>135027601
ever heard of Price's Law?

>>135028017
>make a complete, closed system
today's reminder that she accepted social security and medicare

>>135028792
Good point. How many individuals withdrawing from society in such a way does it take to destabilize the whole thing? This is part of the reason the U.S. is in the shape it's in today.

>>135028384
Hayek also touches on this. He says that during the 40s young men were being told that it is more noble to command 50 men rather than employ 50 men. But in the end, the cornerstone of all civil society and civic virtue itself is in fact commerce.

>>135029327
I can't say it is, but it might be
>>135028792
I find this world dreary to support with its highly-placed pedos, its organized criminals, its malthusian r-strategist niggers and all of the very real suffering they bring into the world.
I'm pretty much a withdrawn zombie myself.
I talk to people as little as possible, and give the world as little of my productivity as I can without debasing my standard of living.