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Here are 10 things I learned about the world from Ayn Rand's insane 'Atlas Shrugged'
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Here are 10 things I learned about the world from Ayn Rand's insane 'Atlas Shrugged'

f Rand were still alive she would probably say, "Thank you for smoking."

Over the past year, I've been reading and reviewing Ayn Rand's massive paean to capitalism, Atlas Shrugged. If you're not familiar with the novel, it depicts a world where corporate CEOs and one-percenters are the selfless heroes upon which our society depends, and basically everyone else — journalists, legislators, government employees, the poor — are the villains trying to drag the rich down out of spite, when we should be kissing their rings in gratitude that they allow us to exist.