This book is a pretty amazing look at the ideas of capitalism at its purest. At its brightest, the characters portrayed offer you a look inside the mind of extreme overachievers and gifted and talented people. At its worst, it shows the dark side of capitalism, since not everyone was born to be a leader, business owner, inventor, or even born to excel at anything. Some were born to work in and help a leader be successful. There is definitely a fine line between the emotional needs and desires of a leader and the needs and desires of a follower. This book seems to throw the followers by the wayside if they can't keep up. Who is John Galt by the way?
John Galt is a figment of the imagination. He has created something that everyone wants, but no one can get to. The element of utopian living with the ability to freely create and discover things without the intervening of the government. The happy place. It is pictured as a real place and looks like a parallel to what our society could become, given the chance to succumb to its own democracy.
Although a 1000 page book seems overwhelming, I must admit, this one tops my list of favorite books. The story although fiction, allows you to draw so many parallels to current times, whether you read it in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, or 2000s for the first time, you can draw parallels to today. It helps you understand capitalism in a different way, and although I don't buy into it fully, I can appreciate my economic and political views better after reading it. It also helped me to understand that politics and economics are a prerequisite to understanding societal influence and how and why the world works the way it does. You can watch the world work, or you can get up and do something.
Will you read this book again? Yes
Would you suggest this book be added to a personal library or leave at the public library? Personal
Anyone interested in business and capitalism should read this book.
Reviewed By Mike W - Twin Cites, MN
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