Exactly to all three.

"...to continue to function and produce, not knowing what random caprice in the skull of what random official will descend upon them at what moment to demolish the whole of their effort." I can't help but to visualize the video of Xiden proudly slapping his name on the pile of Executive Orders his first day in office and seeing the results at the gas stations, grocery stores, and shipping terminals across the country today.

A good friend of mine once said years ago, as we walked up the 18th fairway together at our favorite local golf course early one morning, "If you read Atlas Shrugged and watch Idiocracy you pretty much obtain total clarity." ...I repeat this regularly with the young guys I work with. It's true...

It's such brilliant learning. I promote it all the time. Wish I had more people in my life that were learning this material.

I have mentioned I sign all of my emails (fewer now that I’m shrugging) with Who is John Galt? I have a small share of quick bounce backs and I have a chance to spread the good news.
My emails now are more personal friends and not customers or suppliers spread all over the country. So the sales manager in me would say I have fewer cold calls but higher closing rates.
Another great one to share is:
When the looters state collapses we producers will return and those who wish to live by our code can join us.
Always Be Closing.

Yes, I am telling people about Atlas Shrugged. I am authoring a textbook on how to make things, as I discussed in a prior thread. My sponsor, the Kern Family Foundation, wants me and its other grantees to focus on entrepreneurial mindset development with regard to engineering. While there are many examples that I use, several of the best are from Atlas Shrugged:

1) From Galt's speech: " “So long as men, in the era of savagery, had no concept of objective reality and believed that physical nature was ruled by the whim of unknowable demons—no thought, no science, no production were possible. Only when men discovered that nature was a firm, predictable absolute were they able to rely on their knowledge, to choose their course, to plan their future and, slowly, to rise from the cave. Now you have placed modern industry, with its immense complexity of scientific precision, back into the power of unknowable demons—the unpredictable power of the arbitrary whims of hidden, ugly little bureaucrats. A farmer will not invest the effort of one summer if he’s unable to calculate his chances of a harvest. But you expect industrial giants—who plan in terms of decades, invest in terms of generations and undertake ninety-nine-year contracts—to continue to function and produce, not knowing what random caprice in the skull of what random official will descend upon them at what moment to demolish the whole of their effort. Drifters and physical laborers live and plan by the range of a day. The better the mind, the longer the range. A man whose vision extends to a shanty, might continue to build on your quicksands, to grab a fast profit and run. A man who envisions skyscrapers, will not. Nor will he give ten years of unswerving devotion to the task of inventing a new product, when he knows the gangs of entrenched mediocrity are juggling the laws against him, to tie him, restrict him and force him to fail, but should he fight them and struggle and succeed, they will seize his rewards and his invention."

2) Francisco's money speech

3) Rearden looking at his first run of Rearden Metal coming off the production line

I just shrug and say “The State is going to need a lot of money to keep this ship upright. And I do not know from where it will come. With the productive workers throwing in the towel more and more each day.” Let the conversation start from there.

I'm a Shrug pusher :)

Yes. I make certain friends and family have read Atlas Shrugged or watched the movie. I'm surprised at how many of them had already done so. N