I've never understood why Atlas Shrugged gets so much more hate than any other book that ever gets mentioned. Its like a rule of the internet that anytime it is mentioned, people must show up and dunk on it.
It's easier to snark at something than to actually address its content. Witness the vacuous "dunkage" of that quote above. Literally any book with heroes, people of principle, or people who achieve things can be in the second slot. It's just something for people who have nothing to say, to say.
Because later on in life, you meet people in corporate boardrooms who love doing layoffs and say things like "Atlas Shrugged was the best book I've ever read, it changed my life"
And you've been in those boardrooms?
Is this the equivalent of "Citation Needed"? Either I have been, or people that I trust have been.