Just have some people like Ayn Rand spread ideas like unmitigated greed being
good, and presto! You get a whole bunch of people who now feel justified in
spending all of their combined human ingenuity to hurting each other in an
attempt to get ahead in society.
When you say stuff like this, to a person who has read Rand you sound like a
creationist blaming Darwin for racism and ethnic cleansing. Rand was a
proponent of peaceful, honest, mutually beneficial human interactions, not of a
“might-makes-right” philosophy. Among other things, Atlas Shrugged features
a critique of crony
capitalism.
(Disclosure: I have not downvoted you. I am not an
Objectivist), but I
have read just about everything Rand wrote and am probably more sympathetic to
her ideas than the average Less Wronger.)
When you say stuff like this, to a person who has read Rand you sound like a creationist blaming Darwin for racism and ethnic cleansing. Rand was a proponent of peaceful, honest, mutually beneficial human interactions, not of a “might-makes-right” philosophy. Among other things, Atlas Shrugged features a critique of crony capitalism.
(Disclosure: I have not downvoted you. I am not an Objectivist), but I have read just about everything Rand wrote and am probably more sympathetic to her ideas than the average Less Wronger.)