That Sovereign Individual thing has something going for it.

I've already noted the shrugging of China's new millionaires. Apparently some American shruggers have found refuge in a Southern Cone country:

It is not well known that in several countries, like Argentina's wine country, many of these very wealthy taxpayers are buying property in secluded and posh developments where government leaves them alone (they add to the county's economy), the weather is great and the wine and food are good and inexpensive. It would not be unheard of for just 10 percent, or 90,000, of these wealthy taxpayers to pack up their wealth, hop onto their private jets, leave the United States for good (read "Atlas Shrugged") and move to one or more of these developments. This would be a disastrous blow to the economy, jobs and tax receipts.

Financially successful people these days don't have to put up with "progressive" politicians who attack their character and threaten them with violence and rapine. They can just shop around for other countries where the governments offer to treat them better. And yet again, despite Ayn Rand's nuttiness and confusions, she did have some insight into the political economy of the modern world, and suggested a practical way to protect yourself. Her influence endures, despite its defects, because it make more sense than the abyss of nihilism and abnegation offered by the left.

I just wish that Rand had written the knockout blow of a novel her fanboys claim she did, instead of the suboptimal one sitting on the shelves of every chain bookstore in the country.