Two Questions from the Atlas Shrugged Movies
After re-watching the three movies recently, I'm stuck with two questions that I can't figure out, and I'm wondering if any of you have insight into them...
1. In Part 1, Dagny and Lillian Reardan exchange jewelry, and when Hank comes after her saying she didn't have to do that, she replied, "Yes I did and we both know why." Okay Ms. Taggart, want to fill us in? :)
2. In Part 3, Dagny asks John Galt if every newcomer to the valley spent the night in that bedroom, and John kind of snapped back, "I never meant for you to occupy this room," and said so rather brusquely. I'm not sure what he's implying, was it that they'd come back there as a married couple so she wouldn't be in a guest room? I'm confused.
1. In Part 1, Dagny and Lillian Reardan exchange jewelry, and when Hank comes after her saying she didn't have to do that, she replied, "Yes I did and we both know why." Okay Ms. Taggart, want to fill us in? :)
2. In Part 3, Dagny asks John Galt if every newcomer to the valley spent the night in that bedroom, and John kind of snapped back, "I never meant for you to occupy this room," and said so rather brusquely. I'm not sure what he's implying, was it that they'd come back there as a married couple so she wouldn't be in a guest room? I'm confused.
Marx- the labor input
Keynes- the value of all the inputs
Market- what a buyer will pay
Dagny means that the necklace has high value to her as a free and willing buyer. The value is presumably symbolic of the relationship with Rearden as well as the technical qualities of the material.
Q2. Galt wants to make it quite clear that he did not plan for or envisage a visit by Dagny but rather that she is there as a result of her own decisions and actions.
In Dagny’s case, it was an accident....yes, a deliberate act on her part, but never with the end result in mind. In order for an act to count, one must have a reasonable idea of the consequences of the act. She did not...which is why her arrival was unexpected and why his tone was somewhat scolding.
. .she is there as a result of her own decisions and actions only ..
As you correctly suggest, Galt was the persuader for the arrival of all the others even tho' it was their decision, Dagny however was not persuaded or invited by Galt.