Last Week Tonight took a long — though not nearly as long as Atlas Shrugged — look at the puzzling half life of objectivist founder and dreadful novelist Ayn Rand Sunday night. “Ayn Rand has always been popular with teenagers,” intoned the narrator, linking Rand to the conspicuous consumption of present-day Kardashianism, “but she’s something you’re supposed to grow out of, like ska music or hand jobs.”

The show was left with no choice to wonder: how is Ayn Rand still a thing? The answer, ye who climb in the ratings, is and always will be because #themarketworks.

Watch the clip below, via HBO:

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