re: #4 Dark_Falcon

Why the downding, PS? I was addressing specific points made by the author of the piece.

Because I get exasperated by the “can’t see the forest for the trees” method of argument you use in cases like this, i.e. cherry-picking two points and subjecting them to the most narrow interpretation imaginable while failing to see the big picture.

For example, how do you get “support of hereditary aristocracy” from the author’s Ayn Rand’s comments? To me, the natural interpretation is ditching old-style justifications for slavery (like hereditary aristocracy) and substituting something more “modern”, like “captains of industry” having the right to lord it over “lesser” types, who should know and accept their natural place.

And how is this paragraph, immediately following one that you quoted, in any way inaccurate?

The wealthy and powerful are free to abuse employees, break laws, destroy the commons, and crash the economy — without ever being held to account.

That’s what the piece is really about. I’ve never seen you address or even acknowledge this world-destroying problem, no matter how much evidence is supplied.