Atlas shrugs, Atlas starves. The End. The most fatal flaw in Ayn Rand's book.

[Shankapotomus]

35. The final result of Ayn Rand's philosophy is

humanity becomes a solitary species. Since Ayn Rand's philosophy basically advocates severing relationships with all people who are of no use to you, as people became of no use to each other (as all people eventually do), Galt's Gulch would have eventually broken further and further up until they were all nothing but solitary individuals, each on their own, a solitary species. That's the end point of Rand's philosophy except even solitary species' are able to reproduce and raise their young.

(Ayn Rand herself said she could see no rational reason to raise children so, people from Galt's Gulch would not have a rational reason to restock their population. ) Humanity would go extinct.

The fact is humanity is a family. We have our achievers and our slackers but, just like a real family, you try to keep it together and get better, nonetheless.