The working title for the Ayn Rand classic “Atlas Shrugged” was “The Strike.” Rand wanted to show what the world would be like if the competent, the rational, the men and women of excellence walked away from their work. It was a “rebellion of the unrecognized and often persecuted creative heroes who bear the rest of the world on their shoulders.” It was “the mind on strike.”
Are we seeing something similar happening in California? Business owners and company executives aren’t disappearing while the world around them collapses. But they are leaving the state, fed up with a legislative process always hungry for tax dollars, a regulatory regime that’s far beyond reason and a palpable truculence toward business in general.
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Is Atlas shrugging in California?
Kerry Jackson
The working title for the Ayn Rand classic “Atlas Shrugged” was “The Strike.” Rand wanted to show what the world would be like if the competent, the rational, the men and women of excellence walked away from their work. It was a “rebellion of the unrecognized and often persecuted creative heroes who bear the rest of the world on their shoulders.” It was “the mind on strike.”
Are we seeing something similar happening in California? Business owners and company executives aren’t disappearing while the world around them collapses. But they are leaving the state, fed up with a legislative process always hungry for tax dollars, a regulatory regime that’s far beyond reason and a palpable truculence toward business in general.
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Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.