Atlas Shrugged, Part 2 Chapter 10: The Sign of the Dollar

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Summary: Dagny’s Comet is heading to Colorado, contemplating the slave labor she has taken part in, when she finds a stowaway tramp (aka, Jeff Allen). Jeff Allen tells Dagny about the 20th Century Motor Company, and the disaster that socialism was. After another nap, she woke up to a ghost train, and goes off with Owen Kellogg to get help. Dagny discusses societal issues with Kellogg, and then finds a plane. She flies after Daniels, but loses control and prepares for a belly-landing.

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Atlas Shrugged was written by Ayn Rand in 1957.

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  • Posted by 9 years, 2 months ago
    Jeff Allen to Dagny: “They brought a new plan to run the factory. They let us vote on it, too, and everybody – almost everybody – voted for it. We didn’t know. We thought it was good. No, that’s not true, either. We thought that we were supposed to think it was good. The plan was that everybody in the factory would work according to his ability, but would be paid according to his need. We – what’s the matter, ma’am? Why do you look like that?”
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    Dagny to Jeff Allen: “What kind of work are you looking for?”
    “People don’t look for kinds of work any more, ma’am,” he answered impassively. “They just look for work.”
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    Dagny thinking: “She had wanted to cry to them in apology. ‘It’s not I who’ve done it to you!’ – then had remembered that she had accepted it and that they now had the right to hate her, that she was both a slave and a driver of slaves, and so was every human being in the country, and hatred was the only thing that men could now feel for one another.”
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