Tag: elite decadence

• Atlas Shrugged In California

  California is living Atlas Shrugged: inventiveness collapses, elites drift, billionaires exit—and Joe Sixpack inherits the bill.

  RMDell’Orfano

  February 3, 2026

  Politics, Wealth

  Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, billionaire migration, California politics, Capital flight, cultural decay, decline of inventiveness, economic incentives, elite decadence, government overreach, historical parallels, Hollywood stagnation, middle class taxation, political accountability, productivity decline, public finance crisis, redistribution economics, socialism and innovation, tax burden shift, Wealth tax