Several characters are swept along in this evolution, most importantly Dagny Taggart, the female Operating Vice President of a transcontinental railroad. Rand paints a picture of an America rapidly devolving from capitalism into a very authoritarian kind of communism. The theme of the book was to be 'What happens to the world when the Prime Movers go on strike.' (ix) What is meant by this is that primary means of production, namely the leaders of business and industry (and in certain cases, art), would refuse to work under a collectivist system which no longer respected property rights, individual freedom, and had come to value human need rather than human achievement. In Leonard Peikoff's introduction to the novel, quotations from Rand's journal show the intention of the author. It is partially the story of a transcontinental railway, but that business's decline is meant to serve as an illustration of what would happen if America embraced the values of moral relativism and communism. The themes of individual freedom and the importance of productive creativity would be further expanded on in this subsequent, much longer novel, but in Atlas Shrugged the focus would be more on the whole system than on individual experiences. Pick up orders have no service fees, regardless of non-Instacart+ or Instacart+ membership.Atlas Shrugged was undertaken as an expansion and elaboration on the ideas presented in Ayn Rand's previous best-selling novel, The Fountainhead.

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