[Tijeras_Slim]

It's a great polemic for describing the problem, however, it does NOTHING to show how its solutions work.

Sure it does... First invent an engine that gives you something for nothing...

[Roccus]

... First invent an engine that gives you something for nothing...

That would be the American taxpayer.

[Lx]

First invent an engine that gives you something for nothing...

And then leave it and its paperwork almost intact on the completely deserted and picked over factory floor for Dagney and Reardon to find...

Talk about a MacGuffin...

[Carry_Okie]

Or a mine that produces no tailings, or a steel mill fire where nobody gets hurt...

The claim of regulatory government is risk management. There are libertarian risk management architectures that can work. Rand had no clue how to explain them. In that respect, she failed.

Nice story with a serious warning, but no meat.

[Truthsearcher]

The Randian utopia at the end of Atlas Shrugged is every bit as unworkable as any of the “Worker’s Paradises” that the Marxists she despised fantasized about.

In the end, Rand wanted to offer humanity another version of utopia without God, and ultimately they all lead to the only place of refuge from God, hell.