Atlas Shrugged made simple:
1. Society runs on a small number of highly capable producers – industrialists, inventors, engineers – whose work everyone depends on but takes for granted.
2. The system starts rewarding need over achievement: the more capable you are, the more you’re expected to sacrifice for those who aren’t.
3. Success gets treated like a debt – taxed, regulated, resented – until the most capable start asking why they bother trying at all.
4. One by one, led by a man named John Galt, they simply withdraw – walking away rather than keep propping up a system that punishes them for producing.
5. Without them, the whole structure collapses, revealing that the “automatic” prosperity everyone assumed was actually being generated by specific, irreplaceable people.
6. Atlas is the Titan from Greek myth, condemned to carry the sky on his shoulders forever – Rand’s stand-in for the producer class, holding up civilization while getting blamed for it.
7. “Shrugged” is the whole argument in one word: Atlas doesn’t fight, doesn’t protest – he just quietly sets the weight down. Nobody realized the sky was being held up by anyone in particular, until the day it isn’t.
You don’t want us? We just go…🤷🏻♂️
Mid women are obsessed with humiliating men by posting their failed flirting attempts just to prove that they are, in fact, desirable.
Would bet money she has hip dips.
Ronda Rousey on why she disliked Kim Kardashian:
"I'd beat the crap out of her"
"Any girl who's famous because she made a s*x tape with some guy, and that's all you're known for, is stupid"
"I don't want some girl whose entire fame is based on a s*x tape selling Skechers to my 13-year-old sister"
(2012)
It breaks my heart to say but in order to save this country we are probably going to have to do things that make women sad :(
Yes, even Amy Coney Barrett :(
The idea that a pregnant woman from Guatemala can sprint across the US border, have the baby 30 minutes after arriving here, and the baby is magically a citizen of the US, is one of the most retarded and indefensible notions ever conceived
@Mr_W3dn3sday People love pointing the fingers at the producers, when the real problem is the consumers.
Consumers create the market— producers follow the money.
If a rando nurse practitioner can bilk our government for nearly a billion dollars, I think it’s safe to say we’ve probably lost trillions over the lifespan of these social welfare programs.