>Who is John Galt?
>>25256334If I read the first hundred pages and the last hundred pages can I say I’ve read this? The middle is boring as fuck and I Galted it.
>>25256349if you read past the cover you've already wasted too much time
>>25256334Just play Bioshock
unironically Elon Musk
>>25256374His name being almost perfectly suited to be a Rand antagonist is the universe giving you a clue.A man with no productive skills whose fortune came from finance and government funding is the opposite of John Galt.
>>25256649Actually that makes it kind of a fitting encapsulation of libertarians‘ failure to address how the most successful capitalists in practice do what makes them money and not what capitalist orthodoxy dictates.
>>25256660Capitalism requires sound money which we haven't had since 1913 or the 70s depending on how you keep score The apex capitalists of that era more closely resemble rands ideals
>>25256334I'm curious about both Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Are either worth reading at all, or am I better off spending my time reading something better?
>>25256660>libertarians‘ failure to addressshut up retard. the USA has the largest most intrusively powerful government in the history of the world, stop pretending like companies who are forced to work with corrupt regulators are acting in a free market environment. libertarians have addressed this conflation over and over but you don't actually read them.
>>25257346>Real capitalism has never been tried broLmao
>>25257346>libertarians have addressed this conflation over and overRight, they make the distinction. But have no way to address its actually occurring. Welcome to today‘s reason to reject an ideology for limp-wristed math nerds seeking übermensch status they can‘t actually fight for.
>>25257359>real capitalismYeah, the 18th and 19th century in America and it produced the most industrially dominant society in world history. Then the government established a central bank and income tax and it's been a long vampiric blood-sucking ride downhill ever since.
>movie version changes the characters
>>25256334She dated a Rothschild. Patterned Galt on him.(Was it Jacob? I don't know)
>>25257359Real capitalism was tried and it was awesome. And then they replaced it and now everything is trash This is what I said originally of course but you retardedly sinplified it to a soundbite you heard once so we'll try again, lol
>>25256928Obviously if you've never read Moby Dick, that's "better" but if you are curious about the actual subject matter then yes it's worth reading.
I'm not a libertarian but the obvious difference in intelligence and sanity between posters like>>25257346>>25257370and>>25257359>>25257360makes the libertarians look good
>>25257901Thanks anon. I'm curious about objectivism, but it's more of a mild interest. I haven't read Moby Dick yet, so I'll read that first
>>25257888>Real capitalismLOL"Real capitalism" morphs into "corporatism" or "crony capitalism" or whatever you want to call it. Always.It's like playing Monopoly and expecting all the players to stay flat, never gaining the upper hand or going bankrupt for weeks and months straight.
>>25257370The global ascendancy of the US came directly from war profiteering during the first half of the twentieth century. We were considered a pointless backwater during the periods you favor.
>>25259054The global ascendancy of the American Empire was the doom of the American nation. Jefferson was right.
