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Instead of offering pointless invective why not provide at least one reason why you make this comment? Atlas Shrugged has sold six million copies. That's no argument for the thesis put forward in it but its impact on a fair number of thoughtful people over the last fifty years or so at least commands, don't you think, a reasoned comment in that you felt strongly enough to post your one liner?


Atlas Shrugged has sold six million copies.

How does that compare to Dianetics?


And Techcrunch still gets millions of page views a day. Quality by quantity is an odd concept.

"Everyone should look at..." doesn't follow from "a lot of people..."

Objectivism might be worth looking in to, but that doesn't mean this book (despite being the founding text) has merit.


Mein Kampf sold around ten million copies.




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