russk's review
4.0
I recently read Atlas Shrugged and noticed a lot of parallels between Russell's anarchy planet and Rand's Objectivist utopia. Anti-authoritarian, anti-bureaucracy, rugged individualism, near-limitless natural resources, and a person's value being determined by what they can provide for others. Of the two, Russell's feels more realistic, if only because a barter system based on social trust and community sounds more plausible than the objective values of things in Rand's world.
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