[Pan_Yan]

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.

And they believe in profit (just not on the books, GE), unlike Rand’s buffoons.

[bicyclerepair]

Microsoft was in top 5 donors to Øbama.

[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