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Gawker: Ayn Rand’s Capitalist Paradise Is Now a Greedy Land-Grabbing Shitstorm

Atlas Shrugged readers remember Galt’s Gulch as the rural refuge where Ayn Rand’s Real Men of Genius spurned American socialism for their own anti-leftist paradise. Some inspired libertarians have set up a real-life Galt’s Gulch in Chile. Unregulated capitalism, though, is presenting some problems!

…But all is not so sweet. Wendy McElroy, a “Canadian individualist anarchist” of some note, bought a 1.25-acre plot in Galt’s Gulch Chile last year, or so she thought. She wrote a blistering post Monday suggesting that the Real Men of Genius behind the settlement are grifters, or incompetents, or both:

You too can buy a 1200 acre “Master Estate” for a mere $500,000, but only if you pony up a $2,000,000 “Founders Club” loan to the developers first. After that you can settle in to enjoy your new freedumbs, however there may still be a small problem.

The land is in arid desert scrub brush country and they don’t own the water rights to almost all of the land they are selling. So I’m not quite sure what you’ll be able to do with your land after you buy it…

Grifters and Glibertarians, a match made in heaven. ;)