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Longmire was really good imo.

Also blacklist such a bad example.

William Dufoe? Promise?

Because the people that own the media platforms that would provide coverage are greedy capitalists and Greta just doesn’t bring in the viewership.

If that’s the take away they got from the book then god help us all because they’re idiots.

The book doesn’t demonize communism nor does it idealize entrepreneurs.

In fact the variable hidden Utopia the intellectual elite made to hide themselves in the world was a perfect example of Communism in and of itself.

And a variable waste land they left behind was a perfect example of capitalism run rampant.

You’re entitled to your opinion, it’s wrong of course.

You’re like those idiots on steam that give great games bad reviews because the game crashed once with outdated drivers.

No it’s not. You’re just, and I mean this in the most clinical way possible with out insult, stupid.

It is amazing how you people on this platform don’t like atlas shrugged not knowing anything about it at all.

Right wing nut jobs highjacked the book thinking it’s pro capitalism when it isn’t. Seriously read the damned book! You’ll be surprised.

It most certainly is not.

You’re missing the point of Atlas Shrugged by boiling it down to “capitalists shouldn’t be subject to government.” That’s a shallow take. The novel isn’t anti-government; it’s anti-looting, anti-coercion, and anti-mediocrity enforced by bureaucracy. Rand’s argument is that the mind, the individual, the creator, is the engine of progress, and when that engine is shackled by systems that reward need over merit, collapse follows.

It’s not about capitalists dodging laws. It’s about a system where laws are written to punish competence and reward political pull. Rand isn’t saying we don’t need government. She’s saying we need a government that protects individual rights, not one that redistributes or controls outcomes.

So no, it’s not “literally about capitalists avoiding government.” It’s about the morality of freedom, the sanctity of production, and what happens when we demonize the very people who keep the world running. Read deeper. Or read it at all because I doubt you have otherwise you wouldn’t say something so daft.

“I personally didn’t like it therefore it must be bad” -courval

It’s not.

I hate how atlas shrugged has been highjacked by the right! It’s such a good book and doesn’t mean what they think it means!

If Apple were forced by law to manufacture iPhones exclusively in the U.S., they wouldn’t go under they’d adapt. They have the money (~$54B in liquidity), the brand loyalty, and the organizational muscle to pull it off.

There are ~7 million unemployed people in the U.S. plenty of potential labor, especially if Apple funds large-scale training and leans hard into automation. Would it be expensive? Absolutely. Costs would skyrocket. You’re probably looking at a $1,800–$2,000 iPhone. But guess what? People would still buy it.

They’d need 5–10 years to fully build out fabs, assembly plants, and domestic supply chains, but it’s feasible. TSMC is already building fabs in Arizona. Apple would just have to scale that approach to the rest of the production ecosystem.

Forced U.S. iPhone manufacturing wouldn’t kill Apple. It’d just make them the biggest American manufacturer since WWII.

The issue is like for every other major corporation in this country is that they’re just cheap bastards.

I work in the repair industry and what I tell all my clients when I do warranty work for them if it’s the difference between repairing their item or the CEO of the warranty company getting a new yacht it’s always going to be the yacht first.

I live in Atlanta. One of the slowest most congested city’s in America. We hold record to the slowest intersection in the country. In the smallest worst parts of the city we get out of the way for emergency vehicles.

Have you ever been to a real city?

No. No it doesn’t.

There are 7.1 million people unemployed in the US officially. Realistically that number is probably much, much higher.

You’re saying apple can’t hire a few hundred people to work on an assembly line?

Absolutely every second for an ambulance matters. Every. Second.

People blocking an ambulance should be punished and made examples of.

About damn time. The joke has run it’s course a long time a ago and if these posts are victimizing an individual they most definitely need to be stopped.

If you offer good pay and good benefits at a decent working environment people will flock to assembly lines in the US. Christ they were basically invented here.

Of course it is. They want 1500 bucks for something with a few hundred dollars of overhead. R and d not withstanding they’ll want the same amount of profit for the phone if it’s made in America and profits have to increase year after year! They can’t make a little less profit they have to make more than before!

What’s crazy to me is that everyone in the US knows, KNOWS that the rich-elite pay less taxes. No one hides it… It’s just accepted with no penalty.

Thats so fucked up.

Steven Seagal.