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They all think by reading Atlas Shrugged they are equipped to live on their own little paradise island from the poors.
I believed in that book too. For like a year in my 20s, then I actually learned how the world works. These dumb asses never did. They learned how to take advantage of people, thats it.
so many of the world's problems boil down to a handful of tech bros who made that book their entire personality.
congratulations on escaping the Rand death cult
Its pretty crazy when you think about it
Remember back in 2008, curiously right after Obama was elected and the conservatives were really feeling their neo-confederate roots, all the Republicans in my neighborhood started passing "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" amongst themselves. For some reason, nobody ever bothers to read "Anthem" or get to the back half of "I, Robot" in these groups.
It's not a small skill. For every filthy rich oligarch, living off the accrued labor of thousands of proles, there are a hundred hustlers and influencers and drop shippers and mid-level MLMers who sling just enough slop around to make ends meet. For every drop shipper, there are a hundred factory workers churning out consumerist crap at pennies on the retail dollar, so the drop shippers have something hock.
Being at the top of an empire of greed and exploitation is a full time job. It's not all yacht cruises and prostitute orgies. You spend a bunch of time selling $10k glasses of water in the sweat tents of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. You spend a lot of time pissing out all that Ketamine while pretending to be the best Fortnite player on Earth.
I tried reading that book. Couldn't get past the first chapter.