WHY WOULDN’T business owners ‘go Galt’? They are ... just last night my wife and I talked to a (now part-time employee) of a small excavation business that used to be located on property a quarter-mile or so from our house. The owner closed his business, sold all his equipment, leased his home, and moved back to southern Virginia to reopen as a much smaller operation with a few part-time employees. Keeping a bigger operation simply wasn’t worth the effort.