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Title: propaganda disguised as a novel
Review: In _Atlas_, Rand earnestly seeks to illustrate that rich people deserve their wealth--that there is a direct correlation between virtue and earning power. This is a hopelessly simplistic philosophy, little more than propaganda.Rand seems to have no grasp that the social circumstances one is born into has a huge impact on how far one can climb. She tries to avoid such an objection by having Dagny Taggart refuse to cash in on her inherited privelege, choosing instead to make her own way.But inheritance isn't always privelege. What if Taggart's "inheritance" was a disabled mother and three younger siblings? Would we cheer when she disavowed them to strike out on her own?Close your _Atlas_ and pick up George Eliot's _Middlemarch_: she is a writer that understands not only that human interdependence a fact, but that it can be an ennobling one.
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