Have you read Atlas Shrugged? It doesn't sound like you have.

In AS, it is not "the rich abandoning the worker". It is about hard-working innovators, men and women, who have become wealthy by virtue of the creative talents and drive of themselves and their ancestors, GOING ON STRIKE against an unholy coalition of tag-along rich and parasitic poor who seek through force of government violence to continually steal, sap, and suck the life out of that which these innovators produce.

You would understand this, if you didn't demonize wealth and worship poverty like some kind of rabid Franciscan zealout, or fear and despise technology like a classic Luddite.

AS makes the statement that the world cannot live without the innovators, the inventors, and builders of industry and the creators of progress. That these people share the CIRCUMSTANCE of wealth with some lazy, thieving wealthy parasites was incidental.

It speaks volumes, that you lump the two opposing groups together and missed the entire point of the book. But given the fervor of your blind faith that anyone with wealth has not earned it and only exploited the little people, I am not surprised at your failure.

To anyone reading this - go down to the Santa Cruz public library, check out Atlas Shrugged, and read it for yourself. It's a long story, but Rand's style makes for quick reading.

There is a reason why her work is regarded as a classic of the 20th century. Like Orwell's 1984, it is a very timely warning.

Or don't, and be satisfied with your ignorance.

After all, who IS John Galt?