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[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Who is John Galt? Looks like we're about to find out.

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's the key ideological problem with the book. Rand was right that people do not inherently owe anyone else the fruits of their labor, but wrong about who was holding the world on their shoulders. It wasn't the handful of elite, but the masses without whom the elite would be living in caves and running from bears.

Who is John Galt? We the people are.

And yes, throughout history pretty much every authoritarian regime ultimately collapses or sends their country back decades in progress by not knowing that lesson.

Yet it never seems to actually be learned.

this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2023
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