There's been a lot of talk about how the Tech billionaires read Ayn Rand in college, and became libertarians. One shouldn't overlook, in "Atlas Shrugged", that Rand posited that CEOs and corporate leaders are the drivers of modern civilization and economies. The alternative -- the truth is somewhere in between -- is that the tech bros ma…
There's been a lot of talk about how the Tech billionaires read Ayn Rand in college, and became libertarians. One shouldn't overlook, in "Atlas Shrugged", that Rand posited that CEOs and corporate leaders are the drivers of modern civilization and economies. The alternative -- the truth is somewhere in between -- is that the tech bros may be important, but they function within an ecosystem that depends on a lot of other people and systems. It seems clear that Musk has bought into the "John Galt" mythos -- if he's not just stoned, an alternative hypothesis. And the press is following every burp and fart by these tech bros.
There's been a lot of talk about how the Tech billionaires read Ayn Rand in college, and became libertarians. One shouldn't overlook, in "Atlas Shrugged", that Rand posited that CEOs and corporate leaders are the drivers of modern civilization and economies. The alternative -- the truth is somewhere in between -- is that the tech bros may be important, but they function within an ecosystem that depends on a lot of other people and systems. It seems clear that Musk has bought into the "John Galt" mythos -- if he's not just stoned, an alternative hypothesis. And the press is following every burp and fart by these tech bros.