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You have to have been absent from the world and basically just a brain in a vat that was just turned on to somehow believe in the idea of the "moral, altruistic, genius, persecuted and taken advantage of" greedy and proud capitalist when reality shows the entire opposite: the selfless have nothing, often not even their lives, the rich ones took from everyone, often even their lives. I liked Atlas Shrugged and felt like a real smart cookie halfway in when I was in my early teens reading it in my living room but the characters had already felt a bit, uh, unrealistic and then the monologue/rant came about and it was just ehhhhh. My favourite philosophical exploration/manifesto is the one in Dune, it doesn't even feel blurted out because it's in every book, in every page even, you just absorb it. 👍