Didn't they have any good barbers in Galt's Gulch?
Galt's haircut was pretty lousy.
shareGalt is still searching for the absolute best barber in the world. The barber who has been shunned by his profession for not joining the barbers' union, but has managed to scrape by, relying on the few people who are wise enough respect the importance of an independent barber who has refused to cave in to socialist barber dogma.
In the mean time, everyone just cuts their own hair.
i don't see any reason why the most brilliant nuclear physicist shouldn't be cutting hair. or anyone in the gulch, actually. after all, if you're great at one thing then you're great at everything in randworld.
sharei don't see any reason why the most brilliant nuclear physicist shouldn't be cutting hair. or anyone in the gulch, actually. after all, if you're great at one thing then you're great at everything in randworld.
Not only are they good at everything, they're happy doing anything. Dagny is more than happy to go from railroad magnate to Galt's maid - although to be fair the position seems to involve no actual work, as far as I can tell.
The book is silly enough, but the absurdity of Galt's Gulch really comes through in the movies, because you actually see a lot of the peripheral characters that society needs, and you realize there are a lot more who you don't see.
For example, the bartender at the party, the woman selling coffee at the farmer's market, or the guys actually doing the digging in Francisco's mine. Who were those people? Are they random folks that Galt picked up, or were the captains of industry, great scientist, or artists in the outside world, who are now happy to do menial jobs in Galt's Gulch? share