Just now reading this thread. I agree completely with khalling and stargeezey. Rand's working title for Atlas Shrugged was "The Strike"--what happens when the "prime movers" had had enough of the looters, those who felt entitled to the fruits of the labor of the producers, without feeling any need to contribute themselves. But I always believed, that once the Social Order, so-called, realized the absurdity of the Marxist slogan "From each according to their ability to each according to their need" the producers would rejoin society, and that for the most part, those who could work would be working.
Ideally, anyway, but human nature being what it is, nothing is ever ideal! I guess at that time in my life, I was still pretty optimistic.