It's adorable that you think this is about manual labor.

@Flossing Zoomer In galt's gulch, the truck driver was not a truck driver, but the second in command of Wyatt's shale oil company. He left the real world because he didn't want to be a truck driver. Fair try though.

@Flossing Zoomer Read the book dude. You lifted that off google. You quoted a guy word for word on tv tropes.

@Flossing Zoomer I don't have the book handy. It's where Dagny encounters Wyatt at the shale oil company. The ex-truck driver is working with him, as is Richard Halley's apprentice as a part time job.

@Flossing Zoomer Quentin wasn't with the truck driver and Wyatt, she encountered them separately. Halley's apprentice was the blonde kid she heard whistling the fifth concerto.

Spoken like a true clueless bore

You don't need to be super wealthy. You just need people saying things like you have "white privilege" when you have a stable job with fairly good pay to "go gult". They tell you being white grants you some kind if discriminatory advantage while Asians are all around doing better, while having 2 parents who were actually interested in seeing you be sucessful. While you bring up the single parenting factor being a major part of the general trends of blacks not doing well. They do not care for solutions, only someone to blame for the failures or short comings of others. And honestly there comes a point where letting those who scream to "feel the burn" should be left to their own merits and abilities. The world would likely be better in the long run with them either being forced to find their owns means or sucoming to ther own lack of value. For a life is only as valuable as you and those around you make it.

The ending of Galt's speech directly advocates what you are saying. Galt basically tells every individual to "Go Galt" in any way that they can.

Galt wasn't talking about manual labor. He was talking about smart people only contributing manual labor. The strikers all had jobs in manual labor. If you don't have a job that involves thinking...

@@billlupin8345 Don't make me quote the section of the speech because I can and I will. I am giving you the choice. Galt's speech was directed to any individual who was willing to listen and he referenced different ways in which individuals could "Go Galt" regardless of their position in society.

Bunch of business owners in san francisco are going galt.

A lesson of Atlas Shrugged is brain (leadership) is worth more than muscle (labor). Own your brain.

You need to discover bitcoin.

now more so. as well as in Orwell's 1984 along with a pinch of Huxley's brave new world.

Goddamned imbecile. Income tax has never been lower. You are not struggling to make money because of the poor sucking you dry. It's your own goddamn lack of talent. If you went off the grid, your stupid ass would starve, casting your glance to the sky, cursing Obama's name, knowing deep down it wasn't he that screwed you, it was your own worthlessness.

@@billlupin8345Your anger and hatred are amusing. It doesn't take much to set you off, does it? All someone has to do is express an opinion you don't agree with and you immediately start ranting and insulting.

@@Evil0tto No, it's the specific opinion. Blaming others for your own lack of initiative is everything that's wrong with the country today. Government has nothing to do with it.

I am thinking about dubai. I hate this political landscape here in USA. I want out!

But so compelling you could not put it down, right?

When it's no longer mutually beneficial, it's time to move on. Nobody is forcing you into this agreement. It is not extortion.

My brother in Christ, you signed the lease.

Yeah, and the same people cheered when private landlords where forced to sell because the moratoriums width no help to the small landlords. As a direct consequence there is less player in the market. Less competition equals higher prices. And the high inflation caused by senseless printing do not help. The same people who are complaining the loudest supported these decisions width loud cheers. They have been warned, multiple times. And they told the people who warned them that they are evil. I prepared, and was able to buy my flat at a low interest rate. I had to renovate it myself because i could not afford one that is at good shape. I was warning co-workers to do the same. They laughed at me. Now my interest payment is lower than their rent. Who is laughing now?

Did you miss the charity scene in the part of Dagny and the bum who took her train without paying?

Atlas can survive it. Those who only demand and give nothing can not.

@@raggafan1 So, real life CEOs?

Correcto, es con Bitcoin.

Ya llegó hace mucho. Lamentablemente la gente no tiene ni idea que es el momento porque en América latina no se conoce en lo absoluto a Ayn Rand.

+cassie Isidore It's in Part 2, Chapter 3 "White Blackmail"

It's part 2

lizardking02793 thank you!

Ardiana Fejzullahu thanks! I got it

The ideas terrify them

The second part was the best part IMO. The third one was the worst really, because it turned probably the best chapter in the book into a mere footnote. (Best chapter being ‘Concerto of Deliverance’, containing the events that lead Hank Rearden to finally ‘shrug’)

Fucking shit... Just get into Ayn Rands philosophy. You don't have to shit on women to go galt. You don't have to have a Lillian Rearden as your wife. You have to know what you want and then go get it. When a nice girl comes along the way be happy, but still fight for what you want to achieve. And when your ways part cause she wants to go left but your way goes right then don't be angry, be happy for the good time you had. Start having balls. Don't blame women for you shitty life. Most of the people who are into MGTOW are more like James Taggarts than John Galt.

You hold on for as long as you need to.

@@georgepetras1370 Don't look down!

@@michaelsvoboda1024 Then stand tall.

A. Steven Stelmach-Bondar : Evil deserves a cratered society. And don't we ourselves become evil if we willingly allow ourselves to be instrumentally used by it? Non-violent resistance and withdrawal is often the best recourse. Look at how Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr used it. If you fight it too directly and aggressively, you can end up like Joan of Arc. But if you stay and are only a docile, passive but unwilling participant, you are no better than those silent schoolyard friends who sit by and watch the genocide carried out in their names. Often, the wisest move for an undervalued and overworked employee of talent is to go on strike rather than submit to slavery.

Rand wasn't advising American industrialists to strike. She was clear that as long as people are allowed to express ideas, there was still hope. Income tax is nearly 60% lower than it was in her time, and the wealthy have never been wealthier. If it wasn't time to strike then, it sure as shit isn't now.

Evil can only exist as long as it is able to survive on the blood of the producers like a leech depriving the world of its vitality. Once it is finished and there’s no more blood, it will die, after the industrialists are gone (or dead) and there is nothing left for it to feed on. After that, mankind is forced to learn in order to survive.

Bill lupin No. Rand wasn’t advocating for America’s industrialist to strike. She was warning that they WOULD, and that it would be a good thing if they did when it became necessary to do so. If you watch the end of the third movie, when it says “The End”, it actually goes on to say, “A new beginning”. You know, how we call the “end” of high school a “commencement”? Rand’s message is that sometimes, in order to fix that which is broken, it must be torn down and rebuilt. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

Jesus. I'm not even a big Rand fan, but I've at least seen the interview where she explained when a strike would be necessary. You're not being taxed by tyrants. The industrialists aren't going to overthrow the politicians, they paid good money for them.