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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1431085)1/1/2024 2:06:43 AM
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When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.” Ayn Rand
"The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures. The only thing that is keeping you out of jail is government goodwill." Ayn Rand

She writes this fervent drivel, almost 200 years after the constitution...which addressed all of that.
Our society still survives. Sure there is corruption, because there is greed and lawyers and human nature. But her slogans don't correct that, She just promotes selfishness, which only makes things worse. The oligarchs probably live by Atlas Shrugged. Look at where tribalism got Africa. All individual greed.
Ronald Reagan probably loved her books.
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