go Galt

Meaning

Verb

To become a recluse and stop contributing to one's society, especially in the form of taxes, by reducing one's productivity or work or by refusing to follow societal norms that one believes to be unjust.

Origin

After John Galt, a fictional character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged.

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