"Money achieves value only by being made through work. Happiness eludes the villains because they do not understand this; they do not understand that “[m]oney will not serve the mind that cannot match it” (382). Thus they cannot prevail: life and death may not dictate simultaneously, and the heroes will not be enslaved by these expectations of Stockholm syndrome. The heroic triumph of Atlas Shrugged lies in the freedom to make money—a freedom which allows for all individual freedoms."

-from the article