As he explains to Dagny, the above reasoning is exactly why he left the fully constructed motor at the factory when he left - it was legally theirs.Did he not use his incredible brain to read the fine print? It's hard to justify a contract between employee and employer as "evil collectivism." What kind of contract did Galt sign with the 20th Century Motor Company anyway before his Rage Quit? Presumably he would have entered into voluntary employment (according to Rand's Laissez-Faire ideology) and agreed to certain labor conditions that included his employers (whether that be a boss or a workers' collective that owns the factory) having certain rights to the products of his work, which he accomplishes on company time using company resources.Even if he had chosen to give friends free use of his invention, by his logic, he has that right. I'm pretty sure he did charge Mulligan's Valley for use of his inventions, albeit not via coin slot. Why didn't John Galt just make his static motor coin-operated (maybe only accepting gold bullion coins), like a good Libertarian, so it couldn't be appropriated for free?.
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