“What would happen to the world without those who do think, work, produce? Those are the egotists. You don’t think through another’s brain. And you don’t work through another’s hands. When you suspend your faculty of independent judgment, you suspend consciousness. To stop consciousness is to stop life. Second-handers have no sense of reality. Their reality is not within them, but somewhere in that space which divides one human body from another; not an entity but relation, anchored to nothing..."

-Ayn Rand, "The Fountainhead"