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Atlas Shrugged. Downvote at will, but I’ll die on this hill. It has some issues, sure, but it should be mandatory reading.

I enjoyed it when I was a kid, but one of the ways my thinking has evolved is away from the concepts central to this book. (Though I’ll never leave the concept that makers make the world and we should have no patience for people who contribute only a markup, though to be clear I classify Wall Street in that camp)

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And Nietzsche. What is basically what Rand’s novels were based on. Too bad she fell for the “Will to Power” hoax.

Atlas Shrugged is a bit of a slog, but the ideas are brilliant.

You trippin. 1000+ pages to say greed is good, a realization most people make by fifth grade.

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