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“It was you [Galt] who started this strike?” she asked.

No fucking shit, Dagny, get with the program. He literally walked out of his job saying, ‘I refuse to work under these conditions.’ You don’t deserve to sleep with him if you ask dumb questions like that

Backtracking for two thoughts
1) These people are insufferable. “We exist only for ourselves and owe others nothing,” “taxation is theft,” “we’re the victims here,” blah blah blah
2) ….

Part 3!

Soooo is it just okay that all the passengers die because they hold contrary beliefs?

I recognize the whole section is showing how a catastrophe isn’t just random chance but many explicit decisions to evade personal blame, but this a harsh way to illustrate that an uninformed public is also at fault

HALFWAY THERE

“[Robin Hood] was the man who robbed the rich and gave to the poor. Well, I’m the man. . . who robs from the thieving poor and gives to the productive rich.”

I’m irrationally irritated about Robin Hood being taken out of the context of feudalism, where the poor were productive and the lords didn’t do a goddamn thing.

“The smile looked like the effort of a crippled child groping for a gesture that he could not perform any longer.” What the hell, Ayn

517-523. How did Rearden just have this massive revelation of philosophical exposition and I’m still not even halfway through this book?

“Joy is the core of existence”? Awesome
I shouldn’t have to do anything that other people want me to do (also, they’re too dumb and immoral to understand they’re wrong)? Kinda selfish
My wife is at fault for my inadequacies in our marriage? No