You seem to think people are leaving their jobs and abandoning the workforce because they're lazy... So, the main takeaway from Atlas Shrugging is exactly the picture the words form: if Atlas, the guy holding up the world on his shoulders, shrugs, the world tips over. In other words, if the working class abandons its positions, the world sits still and quite literally falls off a cliff. Is that a bad thing? Maybe for someone who doesn't see the next step or can't appreciate where to take things from there.
We want more leisure time. If people are finding their self-worth, pride will return to occupations. If pride returns to occupations, quality of production improves, as well as quality of life. What we really want to see is an influx of automation. This is the kind of scenario where exactly that cause can take place, producing the effect we all intimately desire - more leisure time. Why is expanded leisure time important? It's obvious: more innovation, sprawling increases of quality in arts of all kinds, longevity and quality of life improvements, health breakthroughs, all sorts of things we all know we need. The trouble is we all too often expect ramifications from these things happening which inhibit our growth. If we focused on how things could improve instead of how things could go wrong, we could get to a lot of distant places and much faster.
That’s not atlas shrugged.
This is people getting free money and deciding not to work . You’re going to have millions evicted and on the streets in the next few months then they’ll be scrambling to find a job or demanding UBI and bigger government. Which is the opposite of atlas shrugging, he’ll be holding up even more weight of the world.
How do you have health breakthroughs with people working less? Work 4 10 hour days. Lazy fucks think they should be able to live on 25 hours a week and the government picks up the rest of the tab.
And of course you don’t even understand atlas shrugged
Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. Rand's fourth and final novel, it was also her longest, and the one she considered to be her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing. Atlas Shrugged includes elements of science fiction, mystery, and romance, and it contains Rand's most extensive statement of Objectivism in any of her works of fiction. The theme of Atlas Shrugged, as Rand described it, is "the role of man's mind in existence". The book explores a number of philosophical themes from which Rand would subsequently develop Objectivism. In doing so, it expresses the advocacy of reason, individualism, and capitalism, and depicts what Rand saw to be the failures of governmental coercion. The book depicts a dystopian United States in which private businesses suffer under increasingly burdensome laws and regulations. Railroad executive Dagny Taggart and her lover, steel magnate Hank Rearden, struggle against "looters" who want to exploit their productivity. Dagny and Hank discover that a mysterious figure called John Galt is persuading other business leaders to abandon their companies and disappear as a strike of productive individuals against the looters. The novel ends with the strikers planning to build a new capitalist society based on Galt's philosophy of reason and individualism.
So unless you’re bezos or zuckerberg, atlas isn’t shrugging. You’re looking for more hand outs, work regulations and bigger government. Unless a major portion of the population leaves the workforce and starts side jobs then you can make atlas shrug as a population. Otherwise you’re going to get fucked with ubi, more taxes, bigger government, more immigrants and regulations.
kek I understand what the book is about... I get it, you're on the "work good" train. Your father and his father were blasted with propaganda about keeping a falling regime alive while everyone but you profited from it.
I'm trying to illustrate a point. Apparently that went over your head, especially considering you think I have thoughts that align with billionaires. It's okay, though. Feel free to misunderstand at your leisure.
My great grand parents were immigrants Volga Germans, they worked hard as dirt farming and gave their descendants possessions and wealth they could never dream of.
My grandfather, father and family have extremely profited from this shitty system that has needed to collapse for decades. Do you know what we do for a living? How much is the 7-10 acres worth of land we own in the middle of the city?
Being lazy thinking you can collapse the system with ubi and bigger government you end up like a third world street shitter hoping you get some food from the shitty government you gave more power to.
We can check out anytime, we’re just sticking around this blue state to watch the collapse before we leave for our homes in rural areas of a red state and we have saved up and with investments, acreage and livestock we’ll never work another day in our life for the government and won’t be dependent on handouts.
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