The Sage of Main Street
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Aynal-RetentiveJohn Galt fled society because he invented a new source of energy, and the people in power did everything they could to prevent the new source of energy from being produced for the sake of protecting the old sources of energy.
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If she had written that greedy competitors block the invention, that would have made Rand into a critic of her own deification of Capitalism as infallible and benevolent. Instead, as she clearly stated it, Galt resented his machine being used to fund a welfare state.
You've been suckered into believing tinfoil fables like the one about an engine running on water being blocked by the oil companies. You'd have to believe that our insulting unpaid education can possibly produce geniuses who are capable of developing futuristic inventions. But nerd grinds become eunuchs, so don't expect any John Galts except in fantasy bestsellers.