>>>> Ayn Rand world where the more talented do well and the rest can go hang?
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>>Ironically that's not what she said or thought. The heroes in her stories are businesspeople, but so are her villains. She would identify a lot of villains around the place these days, asserting their right to scoop value out of society in exchange for nothing.
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>There are as many heroes who don't "own companies" in her novels. Here are some of the main ones.
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>Kira Argounova - engineer
>Dominique Francon - columnist
>Steven Mallory - sculptor
>Howard Roark - architect
>Hugh Akston - Professor
>Richard Halley - composer
>Kay Ludlow - actress
>Ragnar Danneskjöld - a pirate and "reverse Robin Hood" - one of my favorite characters
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>John Galt himself was more an engineer and inventory.
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>Only a small # of the villains are businesspeople (James Taggart being a major one)
I defer to your knowledge of Ayn Rand. But John Galt was an inventory? Did he get counted 4 times a year?
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