Literarily cringeworthy, philosophically vapid and creatively stillborn screed of a novel “Atlas Shrugged” a.k.a. the libertarian bible offers the following dystopian idea: what if all job creating entrepreneurial geniuses suddenly decided to fuck off to some remote compound to build new society there, shielded from the big government. Naturally without these champions of “greedom” - the result of crossing “greed” with “freedom” - America is going first to wither then to collapse only to lie in wait for the moneybags’ second coming. Naturally this crap is adored by the tycoon wannabes - the cryptobros, VC bullshitters and LBO queens, who tend to believe that the Earth will stand still without their shenanigans. What if instead of these - I don’t want to use the word ‘parasites’ but am struggling to find a better synonym for the term ‘entrepreneur’ in that context - so, what if instead of them the scientists and the intellectuals disappeared? What if all capable physicists, mathematicians, biologists, chemists, historians, linguistics, philologists, archeologists did something similar? What if all these academic eggheads - save a handful of single issue muppets and middle aged MAGA nutjobs from the former USSR - found a new host country. America has been great for 250 years but it’s a has been … Those staying behind in the Big Simple America are free to turn Harvard into a golf resort, repurpose the remaining computers for cryptomining, LLM systems generating marketing messages, concentration cam logistics and algorithmic trading. They will also have the most important areas of medicine left - hair regrowth, teeth whitening and liposuction… the rest will be gone. Cryptofuckers would buy condos and play golf with app ecosystem builders and hang out with biohackers in Dubai - what else do you need.