Galt's Gulch

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  • Posted by Solver 13 years, 7 months ago
    “Ruthless capitalism” - a no hold bared system where crony capitalists commonly bribe big governments for political favor, typically for big social contracts or to squash their completion.

    If I was a misinformed “liberal” I might believe that Ayn Rand was in favor of this.
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  • Posted by theidealnate 13 years, 7 months ago
    Anti-Rand...that is pathetic. Workers were never called "leeches." Anyone who sayd Ayn was against "workers" never read the book. The entire book preached work ethic!
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    • Posted by XenokRoy 13 years, 7 months ago
      Rand would call "Workers" leaches and likely did but I don't know of a specific reference.

      However what the collectivist love to leave out of this statement is that she is referring to the looters who show up to a job, provide excuses but no results over and over again.

      If this type of "Worker" is called a leach it sounds rather appropriate to me as the metaphorical comparison is quite good.

      She showed nothing but respect and admiration for anyone that truly was a producer in their work, no matter what that work was..

      Work without production is leaching off those who do produce something. That type of worker she would call a leach and probably has since she has called them a lot of other things that represent well what they are in society.
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