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The Importance of High Agency in Atlas Shrugged
I think that there might be something worth keeping in Atlas shrugged and that is the importance of high agency. And I think it's noteworthy that lots of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have cited Rand as being one of their chief inspirations or influences from Elon Musk to Peter Teal to potentially even Steve Jobs if we believe was the axe account of his intellectual influences. Is that something you agree with? I would say that so basically inspire people to be highly agentic. So let's call that a keeper. Now what do they do on the basis of that? The primary failing of Atlas shrugged is that it's like individual only, individualism only. What's needed is for highly agentic individuals to actually