THE TOP TWO CLUBHOUSE SESSIONS OF 2023:

Richard Salsman’s Disgust/Hatred of Finance with 742 listeners!

“In a real world capitalist system, money is not this floating abstraction, printed without limit and invertible into nothing. That’s the status of the system. So we have a very sad situation today where people may come to hate finance because the government has corrupted it.” – Richard

Salsman, Ph.D.

Richard Salsman and David Kelley’s AntiSemitism & Anti-Capitalism with 701 listeners!

“Human beings have some kind of proclivity toward tribalism that can be motivated by lots of things, including, you know, financial grievances about not getting paid. There’s a long, long, sorry, history of all kinds of such tribal, in-group preference. But we have reason and free will, and we can choose not to indulge any such proclivity.”

– David Kelley, Ph.D.

Leisure reading among young people has plummeted 85% since the 1970s. Though we may not like this trend, it’s a fact. 98% of young adults aged 18 to 24 use social media on a regular basis today, so The Atlas Society set out to dominate social media platforms popular with that age bracket with short-form content to build a distribution network, where we then upsell opportunities for deeper intellectual exploration.

Every week we post over 50 pieces of unique content, ranging from graphic memes featuring quotes by Ayn Rand, to graphically rendered statistics, to humorous posts, to video content. Over the past few years we’ve expanded onto new platforms popular with our target demographic (e.g., Instagram and TikTok), gradually stepped up the frequency and variety of content posted, organically increasing both the number of people following our feeds and (more importantly) exponentially increasing engagement (comments, shares, likes).

As a result, we’ve built a social media behemoth, dwarfing other objectivist & libertarian accounts—as well as major socialist/progressive accounts, on nearly every platform. A few metrics over the last year to highlight: