"Who is John Galt?"

[Trivers]

Open your wallet.

The producers will continue to get screwed.

The government will demand more.

I work 80-100 hours weeks, personally guarantee large amounts of loans, employ 50+ hard working associates.

And yet my taxes will keep going up to support others who don't want to make the sacrifices to enable their lifestyles.

I'm resigned to the fact that we are becoming more and more an entitlement society.

[Cannibal]

Taxes have gone up recently?

[nstygma]

Originally Posted by Cannibal

Taxes have gone up recently?

i don't know, i don't pay that crap.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

The conceptual flaw with Galt's Gulch is that no one would actually move there to clean the toilets.

That would be a plumber and he/she would be highly paid.

[cosmo20002]

Originally Posted by nstygma

i don't know, i don't pay that crap.

Ah, one of the 47%?

[nstygma]

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

Ah, one of the 47%?

no, you have to have worked at some point, to collect unemployment

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by listopencil

That would be a plumber and he/she would be highly paid.

It's a completely unsustainable community. There's be no way to generate new wealth in that community because to do so would require jobs, which would require hierarchies, which would require division of resources. It would quickly become the same as outside society in terms of Haves and Have-Nots, only worse because everyone in the Gulch has a gigantic ego.