Bad idea to watch Gone Girl just before going to bed . <| sep |> If Ayn Rand ' s beliefs were the norm , corporate monopolies would dominate the nation and probably the world . Wage slaves , born into debt , would toil in dark mines and decrepit factories . Our air would be thick with toxic byproducts from smokestacks and behemoth trucks . Our overseas wars would be endless and in conquest and capture of natural resources . A rich oligarchy of a handful of families would be godlike with their power and ambitions , living in lavish palaces while the other class lived in tiny boxes stacked in a jumble . Crime would be rampant as private prisons lobbied for strict laws against the most minor infraction . That would lead to a large population of exconvicts who , unable to seek employment with the corporations , turn to crime to survive . Politicians are blatantly sponsored by the Faustian currency exchanges in the halls of governance . It would me a death march toward oblivion . All hope would be lost for the super majority of the population , as social assistance programs ceased to exist leaving the infirmed and less fortunate to suffer and die . Man could no longer choose his destiny , but would be subject to his inevitable fate .