➔ Atlas Shrugged Part II Chapter 7: The Moratorium on Brains - Directive 10-289 Freezes Everything
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This is the chapter where Rand drops the bomb. Everything the looters have been building toward – all those incremental regulations and emergency powers and “temporary” measures – reaches its logical conclusion. Worse than anything you could have predicted.
Directive 10-289
Wesley Mouch reads it aloud in a room full of bureaucrats and cronies. Eight points. Each one more insane than the last. Every engineer and every person who has ever changed jobs needs to hear this: