RE ENTREPRENEUR AMERICAN STYLE AYN RAND'S EGOIST RALPH KRAMDEN

This is the classic example, the best image I can think of, except perhaps for Robert Macaire,  of the type of individual who typifies the harsh (if also, at time, comical) reality behind the American dream of entrepreneurship, 


also identified with Ayn Rand's egoism or 'reason', 


Honeymooner, Ralph Kramden:





In 21st Century America, 


picture him now well armed,


and radicalized.


Not perhaps such a laughing matter.


Macaire was a bona fide crooked character, whereas Kramden is a mere entrepreneur wannabe, typified by now-vanishing middle America.