Reply #27

After paying off my house a couple of months back, I decided it was time to fix body damage to my car. I discovered the shop I know and love is out of business.

I have a farm 250 miles away. I have two different routes for driving there. And I have my usual stop along each way where there isn't a lot of business and the bathrooms are clean. On both routes, my stop is no longer there.

If this is the worst I have to put up with, then I don't have much reason to complain. But it does illustrate in a small way something in the same vein you just brought up. The suffering of others have a negative impact on my life.

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And then there is a very famous historical example: Typhoid Mary infected a lot of her wealthy employers. Universal healthcare is vitally important for the wealthy. Some of them are just too stupid to figure that out.

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In the meantime, somewhere John Galt is happily mining his own minerals using mining tools that he fashioned himself using tools that he also fashioned himself and powered by his all powerful work ethic. He hauls his minerals to the plant he personally built with his own two hands over roads he build with his own two hands in a truck he built with own two hands out of parts he built with his own two hands out of materals, etc, ad nauseum. He then smelts his ore himself after building a smelter that is fueled by coal that he personally dug out of the ground with a shovel that he personally constructed. Next he uses the material he has just produced to personally build THE GREATEST INVENTION EVER which he himself invented.

Then he buys it himself because John Galt is fully self-sufficient.

Fortunately, he also has his own printing press (which he built out of...) and so prints his own money. So he keeps getting richer. So that he can buy more stuff that he builds since there is nobody else to make products for him to buy because John Galt needs nobody.