Far lesser known than Atlas Shrugged is The Weapon Shops of Isher, who offer an alternative to 'going Galt'. It is something I think Ragnar would approve.

In the initial story, Fara Clark is an honest, hardworking, but simple owner of a motor repair shop in the tiny village of Glay.
One day a weapon shop appears in a field owned by a known skinflint. Nothing can be done to be rid of them, and the authorities seem disinclined to do anything about it.

Fara, dead loyal to the Empress Innelda Isher, is outraged at the appearance. But, his son, a calculating looter, empties Fara's bank account; a loan company buys the mortgage on the repair shop, and immediately forecloses, leaving Fara bankrupt.

Everyone suggests he go to the Weapon shop.
So he goes to the Weapon shop to buy a gun to kill himself.
"With a terrible effort, he caught his spinning brain and blurring voice. Tense and cold, he said:
“All I want is a gun that will shoot in self-defense, but which I can turn on myself if I have to or—want to.”
“Oh, suicide!” said the old man. He looked as if a great understanding had suddenly dawned on him. “My dear sir, we have no objection to your killing yourself at any time. That is your personal privilege in a world where privileges grow seanter every year. As for the price of this revolver, it’s four credits.”
"

After purchasing his revolver, Fara is escorted out the back door... which opens to the side of an enormous building in broad daylight.
Inside the building, the Weapon shop judges determined that he was indeed cheated, his money was returned to him, and his equipment returned to his shop... with the reparations coming from the people who cheated him

“You will be interested to know,” she said, “that your son, Cayle, bribed himself into a commission in the Imperial army with five thousand credits.”
“Eh?” said Fara. He half rose from his chair, but before he could say anything, the young woman was speaking again, firmly:
“I must inform you that the weapon shops take no action against individuals. Your son can have his job, the money he stole; we are not concerned with moral correction. That must come naturally from the individual, and from the people as a whole—and now if you will give me a brief account of your problem for the record and the court.”

Later, back in the shop, Fara is briefed by the proprietor. .
"These firms constitute only a fraction of the eight hundred thousand companies that are constantly in our books.”
He smiled again, humorlessly: “These companies all know that, because of us, their profits on paper bear no relation to their assets. What they don’t know is how great the difference really is; and, as we want a general improvement in business morals, not merely more skillful scheming to outwit us, we prefer them to remain in ignorance.”
He paused, and this time he gave Fara a searching glance, said at last: “The unique feature of the companies on this particular list is that they are every one wholly owned by Empress Isher" "


I think this story, and The Weapon Makers, give a parallel take on Shrugging. Rather than trying to force society into embracing Objectivism (or else), they merely "correct" the injustices... much like Ragnar.

The books are available on Amazon, and I managed to find etext versions somewhere (to go along with the paperbacks I already have).


"It is important to understand that we do not interfere in the main stream of human existence. We right wrongs; we act as a barrier between the people and their more ruthless exploiters. Generally speaking, we help only honest men; that is not to say that we do
not give assistance to the less scrupulous, but only to the extent of selling them guns—which is a very great aid indeed, and which is one of the reasons why the government is relying almost exclusively for its power on an economic chicanery."