[MarkL]

A major flaw of Rand’s story in today’s reality is that very few of the creative geniuses who invent the products run their company past the initial phase. There are very few of the industrial giants on Rand’s fiction in the United States today. They are all corporate ladder climbers who work in the system, and they have no reason to go Galt.

Good point... Nearly every successful major company that I can think of has either lost or kicked out their founders, certainly after they go public. Examples include Apple (though Jobs did eventually come back and save the company), Novell, Sun, and Cisco.

Mark

[C. Edmund Wright]

.....Good point... Nearly every successful major company that I can think of has either lost or kicked out their founders, certainly after they go public. Examples include Apple (though Jobs did eventually come back and save the company), Novell, Sun, and Cisco.........

I think today’s “Galts” are not the titans like Rearden or Dagny Taggart - but the under the radar entrepreneur who built something up and has now downsized or halted his/her operation and more or less gone on strike to hope and ride out this socialist storm. Big time corporations have become so intwined with government that it’s hard to tell them apart. But the spirit of Galt lives in the successful start up guy - maybe not in an industry that can do global - maybe in the more mundane industries...