Unbelievable Heroes, I'll take a stab at that first. TJ Watson comes to mind when I think of a Hank Rearden. A man that starts a company in his garage and kept the collectivist jackals(unions) at bay via merit systems, Out maneuvering what the jackals would promise etc. His company remained private for as long as he ruled over it. IBM went public and his heirs destroyed Watson's version of Rearden Steel. Case solved.
Now you know, the emotionally stunted socially crippled adults in this country and others, haven't read nor applied a thing that Ayn Rand wrote. We would be Intellectually dishonest, to take Jud's quote to heart. . These adults are socially crippled because of government education, collectivism, and Progressive Values that's passed off as forward thinking. Perhaps if One thought of "their job" as another's private property, under contract and could be abolished at the owners discretion, it would alleviate many issues in the work place. I find that the laborors I've known, can't deal with adulthood because of the lack of this very knowledge, feeling they have some power over another's private property. In other word having a "Right"to that labor.
Riddle me this, how come every time I've been told to read Atlas Shrugged, it's been from Gentlemen that run billion dollar Corporations? Never had a "Peeon" say, "Hey man, go off and spend a month reading Ayn Rand". It's Never Happened. Last time I had a discussion about Atlas, it was with my eye doctor. This gentleman is world renown, a leader in his field.
Jud you have your opinion, I've just never bought it, but it's at the base of every Rand debate. These discussions usually start out with "Rand was a Sociopath", which I usually have to guide the other individual to the reality that "they are the sociopath", regardless of whether she was or wasn't. Thanks for the comment though, it'll drive this into deeper waters.
