[feoren]

Rephrasing: "It should be obvious to anyone who looks that rich, productive people deserve to be worshipped as innately superior god-like humans by the stupid, lazy, and innately inferior under-classes." -- A rich, productive, and lucky person. Lots of respect for John Carmack and what he's done, but I'm pretty sick of the kind of person who's born to a television reporter and given access to computers in the mid 70s having the attitude that everyone who is poor deserves it. If they're so poor, why doesn't their daddy just do another movie? Sometimes kids must be very stern with their daddies. "Please daddy, please! It's 20 million dollars daddy!" And so daddy does the picture.

The ideas espoused by Ayn Rand are absolutely unconscionable and I'd argue anyone who doesn't see the "Atlas Shrugged" effect, where impressionable readers tend to become hyper-assholes for months (or the rest of their lives) after reading it, they are paying less attention than those who don't notice all the John Galts around them. Of course that upper-middle-class white male whose parents are paying for his college tuition is a John Galt, and of course all those Hispanic sons of migrant workers are stupid dirty lazy nobodies who should worship him. Aren't you paying attention!?

This is yet another case of yet another rich person saying we should all be deeply grateful they're bestowing their diving Jobs upon us and we should all worship them and not get angry when they don't pay taxes.