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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Father Terrence who wrote (7572)4/30/1997 8:40:00 PM
From: epicure   of 108807
 
>IT IS A FREE EXCHANGE. NON-COERCIVE. No one forces a person to accept any particular jub, or stay at any particular job. . . except in a closed, collectivist society where men do not own the value of what they produce -- in fact everyone else has a right to that value EXCEPT the individual who created it!<

Most men do not own the value of what they produce in a non-collectivist society. It is in the nature of human beings to be exploitive. Corporations do it, people do it. External forces can be as coercive as any collective, and they can force people to work and to stay at one paricular job. Only someone like Ayn, who obviously was not very in touch with reality, would fail to understand this. I'm not saying there is much redress for the inequality life deals us by accidents of fate, but to worship a system that exploits those accidents is too much.
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