Hank Rearden’s Courtroom Speech, from the philosophical novel Atlas Shrugged, written by Ayn Rand and spoken through the character Hank Rearden. As an introduction: Hank Rearden is a very successful steel and business magnate, who worked his way up from working in a coal mine at age 14 to eventually owning his own steel mills. He has spent the last 10 years developing a new metal alloy which he calls Rearden Metal, which is lighter, stronger, and cheaper than steel. Jealous of his success, and professing the “unfairness” of Rearden owning so many businesses and not “giving the little guy a chance,” his competitors collude with their allies in the national government to pass the Equalization of Opportunity Bill, which forbids any man from owning more than one business. Rearden, who nearly had a vertical integration of his supply chain is forced by the violence of the state to sell many of his businesses to his competitors. An addendum to this law is the “Fair Share Act,” in which businesses must provide their products to all customers in equal amounts. Rearden chooses to break this rule by first selling much of his Rearden Metal to a trustworthy coal provider named Ken Dannager, to whom he had sold his coal fields, so that Dannager can continue shipping Rearden more than his “fair share” of coal so that Rearden can continue to produce his Rearden Metal, in a virtuous feedback loop. The other coal companies are incompetent, untrustworthy, and are more interested in public relations and lobbying than actual production. Sound familiar? Rearden also refuses a government order to deliver 10,000 tons of Rearden Metal to the State Science Institute for an “unspecified project.” Rearden refuses, citing that as the creator of Rearden Metal, he felt a responsibility for the use that others would make of it, and, as the government refuses to state the purpose of those 10,000 tons, Rearden ostensibly refuses. The true reason was that earlier, the State Science Institute had issued reports questioning the safety of Rearden Metal, without any effective proof, in order to sabotage his efforts. Because the State Science Institute is perceived as “unbiased” and focused on pure science, much of the country believes them. In reality, the State Science Institute issued that report because they, in their years of existence, had failed to produce anything economically useful, and were fearful that their funding would be cut. Sound familiar? Rearden refuses and later is indicted for flouting the law and providing “more than his fair share” to Ken Dannager. Dannager disappears the night before the trial, but Hank Rearden appears. Here is the courtroom scene from the brilliant work Atlas Shrugged:

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