Although don't agree with everything in Ayn Rand's idealism in her novels there is definitely some wisdom how she depicts the fall of governments in West, the spongers, looters (thieves of society) as opposed to the creators, entrepreneurs, artists and hard working citizens.
What is the most famous line from Atlas Shrugged?
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”
the looters and the non-looters. The looters are proponents of high taxation, big labor, government ownership, government spending, government planning, regulation, and redistribution".
As such, the Randian world portrayed in Atlas Shrugged has three kinds of people, “men of ability” who know that they “can't consume more than [they] have produced” (Rand 1999, 411), the “ordinary men” who attempt to do the best they can with their limited potential, and the “looters” who derive their worth by leeching ..