➔ Atlas Shrugged Part II Chapter 6: Miracle Metal - They Took His Name Off It
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This chapter made me angry. Not the abstract, big-picture anger Rand usually stirs up. More personal than that. It hit close to work I do every day.
The Directive
Wesley Mouch and his crew of bureaucrats, industrialists, and union bosses are gathered in Washington. They are drafting Directive 10-289 – basically the government’s answer to an economy that is falling off a cliff. Their solution? Freeze everything. Nobody quits their job. Nobody closes their business. Nobody invents anything new. All patents and copyrights get handed over to the state as “voluntary” Gift Certificates.