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[–] erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Atlas Shrugged is the conservative wet dream of "what if the rich people that totally do all the work and hold everything together got tired of the poors being so whiny and ungrateful and stopped." It's an-cap fan fiction.

[–] Denjin@lemmings.world 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ayn Rand wrote robber baron fan fiction

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And then died living off social security and Medicare.

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Like a true hypocrite

[–] erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

"Robber baron" needs a resurgence for modern times

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

you missed out the part where they go to live inside a holographic volcano and pay each other with gold - which of course is useless inside a volcano but the book glosses over that