Yes, I know that..but can’t comment on it. But, some of his actions were just plain destructive (the South American mines..I don’t recall any point to that other than to make sure no one could mine them).
That’s what Ragnar said (I read those pages two days ago), but Ayn Rand had her story of Robin Hood wrong. When Robin “stole from the rich” he was re-appropriating tax money from the rich government. More specifically, he was robbing the government looters, much the same as Ragnar was doing against the government and its allied looters in Atlas.
Of the whole book thus far (including the LOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNG soliloquies by all of its main characters), that fundamental misstatement by Rand is the most disappointing thing I have seen.