英雄约翰·高特呼吁实业家耸耸肩，收回他们的生产性活动，让“世界的马达停下 ” ， 不要让这个世界在平均主义的伪装下产生保护政治关系集团经济利益的激励。
The hero, John Galt, calls for them all to shrug, to “stop the motor of the world” by withdrawing from their productive pursuits, rather than promoting a world in which, under the guise of egalitarianism, incentives have been usurped in order to protect the politically connected from economic failure.