Only an entire chapter? Significant swathes of the book are just characters monologuing about how much they hate the poor, and how great their enlightened selves are for actively shooting themselves in the foot to spite the proletariat.
I say often, and only half-jokingly, that Atlas Shrugged made me a socialist. I grabbed a copy for free that was otherwise being sent to the trash, and by the end, it was clear that I shouldn't have interrupted its journey. It's like if someone took Nietzche, discarded the good bits, replaced the overt misogyny with the more subtle "woman should improve themselves by being more masculine" variety, and then tossed in some kinda-rapey sex scenes to try and keep peoples attention through a 1000-page novel/manifesto.
Read Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread and Stirner's The Unique and It's Property a few months later, never looked back.
I say often, and only half-jokingly, that Atlas Shrugged made me a socialist. I grabbed a copy for free that was otherwise being sent to the trash, and by the end, it was clear that I shouldn't have interrupted its journey. It's like if someone took Nietzche, discarded the good bits, replaced the overt misogyny with the more subtle "woman should improve themselves by being more masculine" variety, and then tossed in some kinda-rapey sex scenes to try and keep peoples attention through a 1000-page novel/manifesto.
Read Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread and Stirner's The Unique and It's Property a few months later, never looked back.