I haven’t actually read the book but my understanding is that in Atlas Shrugged they’re actually building a high-speed rail link from Las Vegas to Disneyland.
Then, two weeks later:
Atlas Shrugged is a stupid book, Ayn Rand is a stupid woman, and John Galt’s ideas are stupid. That said, none of them are nearly this stupid. Rand’s novel isn’t about a world in which executives who build companies based on a lot of incorrect decisions, then pay themselves millions of dollars while bankrupting their firms, then come to the government hat-in-hand asking for bailouts, then find that the bailers-out want to attach some strings to their hundreds of billions of dollars in public funds and then go to hide out in Galt’s Gulch.
Wow, Matthew Yglesias read the thousand page Atlas Shrugged in two weeks! he even read John Galt's 50+ page soliloquy! And he did so after making fun of people who had already read the book. How noble of him.
Or maybe he just read the wikipedia entry like the rest of us.
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