re: #32 celticdragon

I keep wondering how trilobites would have tasted when fried in extra virgin olive oil and drizzled with white truffle oil and butter.

Me too, except with garlic butter.

re: #92 kirkspencer

Yes.

Rand’s philosophy assumes mercantilism is correct - that value is solely in the goods, and no value is added by labor. (That the value of labor is exactly what she’s indicating with Galt’s gulch is blind irony, but I digress.)

She also has an very weird and artificial definition of “creators”—also distinct in her novels, where the captains of industry are also the inventors/technologists. She doesn’t understand the reality of R&D as a part of business (or of production logistics), and is basically deploying the movie script narrative of the self-made entrepreneur as though it were fact.