Personally, I find it rather ironic that a big business (Lego Corporation) is promoting an anti-business message.

As a side note, people should be aware that collectivism is the underlying principle which drives big-business. Individualism is the driving force behind small businesses and independent freelancers.

“The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.”
~ John D. Rockefeller

http://www.economist.com/node/160180

What's kind of funny is that John D. Rockefeller was essentially the real life equivalent of Ellis Wyatt (that is, he was a giant oil tycoon), yet his principles were totally opposite of the ones which Ayn Rand thought such a man would have. Just something to think about... ;)

I don't know enough about him or his business practices to judge.

Ah, that makes more sense.

Now here's a question: do you consider John D. Rockefeller to be a genuine capitalist or a crony capitalist?

I had to edit it. Read it now.

A capitalist doesn't profit by trading value for value? What do you mean?

A crony capitalist and a politician are hard to separate. A capitalist doesn't profit by buying influence.

Hmmm, I suppose that's a good way to look at it. But then, what's the difference between a crony capitalist and a big business capitalist? Must business remain small in order to avoid being crony?

It's anti crony capitalist.

I *told* you AS needed more CGI...

That's sort of true, except that the cookies are magical ones which actually do cause you to lose weight. You can't blame Lego for giving the public the message it wants to hear. It's a matter of supply and demand - the public demands an anti-business message, and so Lego supplies it. Is this paradoxical? Absolutely. But it's the way things work.