atlas shruged
The protagonist, Dagny
Taggart, sees society collapse around her as the government increasingly asserts control
over all industry, while society's most productive citizens, led by the mysterious John
Galt, progressively disappear. Galt describes the strike as "stopping the motor of the
world" by withdrawing the "minds" that drive society's growth and productivity; with
their strike these creative minds hope to demonstrate that the economy and society
would collapse without the profit motive and the efforts of the rational and productive.
