What is going Galt? I am familiar with the saying and the book but never read or asked.
“Going Galt” means you opt out of the system. You take care of yourself and other like-minded individuals. If you are a business owner, you shut yourself down. This affects the gov in two ways: one, the goods or services you produce leave a gap the gov’s gotta fill. If enough in your field go Galt, the gov is screwed. Two, you laying off your employees has an effect on the gov, as in more people either making themselves self-sufficient (as hoped), or putting more strain on the social service handouts of the gov. Going Galt is one way to get the gov’s attention, and use it to either flip the gov off or negotiate an equitable situation. I’m just a worker bee, so for me to go Galt is barely a drop in the bucket. But for a company that employes 50 people and produces a non-common but needed resource, it’s curtains for that sock-monkey* in the White House.
Use of the term “sock monkey” hurts me, as I love sock monkeys. but Dude, have you seen 0’s ears????????
Oh, and going Galt is also a pretty good way to shut down the faux-economy. No more monopoly money, cash and gold are king. You want that new tv? Ya gotta have the CASH to pay for it, no more putting it on your EBT card.
It’s a drastic, drastic measure. I think it’s time has come. I dibs on Colorado!
Going Galt means to withdraw from society, or minimize your income so the parasites can’t feed off you.
“Going Galt,” or what is better termed “shrugging” is refusing any longer to contribute to the economic system so long as the fruits of your productivity are going to be stolen. Either you hide out in the mountains at your own Galt’s Gulch, or you work below your abilities. Galt himself invented an engine that runs in static electricity or something and was employed at a gas station or something (I forget). I believe there was a professor of philosophy who became a short order cook.
The easiest way to explain Atlas Shrugged to those who haven’t read it is to point out that its working title was The Strike. It’s the producers for once who go on strike rather than the laborers.
I cannot stress enough that you need to read the book. It is long, but it is powerful.
I cannot stress enough that you need to read the book. It is long, but it is powerful.