re: #61 Obdicut

I really, really, really don’t understand why people who identify as libertarian-esque, like Rand, have such a fixation with corporations.

Libertarianism is the ideology that maximization of personal freedom is the ultimate good. In general, libertarianism is therefore opposed to collective power.

Corporations represent collective power.

So why don’t libertarians have the same attitude towards them as they do to the government? Can I really blame it all on Ayn Rand and her bizarre adoption by libertarians?

Possibly. I think there is a strain of thought—I don’t even know if I’d call it libertarian, which means so many different things to so many different people—that power achieved through business is somehow more deserved than power achieved through politics, and that the former should be not only rewarded but adulated.