re: John Galt
The ideas are good but they don't work in the real world. To me Ayn Rand is a mirror image of Karl Marx, instead of a worker's paradise it's an employer's paradise. If everyone was honest her system would probably work, but unfortunately that's not realistic. That's the intriguing mirror image, communism was said to be workable if everyone was honest as well.
I wonder why a lot of right wingers never went and formed a commune to test it all out. They probably realised the BMW would break down, they'd run out of champagne, etc.