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Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Sure, Rand was a delusional, ignorant hypocrite, but never forget, she was also a really mediocre writer.
Our entire economy is made up of monopolies and oligopolies.
Also, despite arguing that government benefits constitute an immoral redistribution of wealth, Ayn Rand didn’t turn down her Social Security payouts
Don’t forget: it also breeds creativity. That’s the reason cars come in 1 of 3 colors and look like they all cheated from the same sheet during a test.
Someone should introduce Ayn Rand to the concept of Standard Oil.
The more free you make anything, the more idiots are going to try and abuse it.
Free markets have never existed. At least, not the type of free market Libertarians describe.
Any capitalistic company’s end goal is to become a monopoly. To have completely cornered the market and eliminated all competition.
Funny part is that she also was a cult leader and managed to convince her husband it was ok for her to bang other dudes but not him. She was David Koresh before David Koresh and it her religion was money! Don’t forget that she grew up with her industrialist father who treated his people like shit so they protested against him and I think burned down the factory and ran him out of town. She wasn’t going to let that happen again.
She was a grifter, just like the rest of the right.
She protested against Social Security, but happily took those payments when she got old.
“An unregulated market is only free until someone gathers up some money” -me
The problem with this is that big corporations put extensive resources into eliminating free markets. A free market has freedom of information and freedom of access for both buyers and competing businesses.
Nestle makes it impossible to know what their supply chain is doing? Not a free market. Amazon undercuts competitors to deny them a fair chance in a market? Not a free market. Ford gets laws changed so their cars don’t have to follow emissions standards while imported vehicles do? Not a free market
I don’t put any stock in the words of dead junkie welfare queens.
Andrew Ryan ahh ideology
Yes. Of course. That’s why there are so many grocery stores and hardware stores to choose from.
Free markets drive TOWARDS monopolies. Like, how dumb was Ayn Rand.
Ayn Rand , who kissed the arses of the wealthy, hoping to be accepted and included.
Ayn Rand, who died alone and in poverty because those in the classes she worshiped knew she wasn’t one of them.
Lots of people just like her are still around.
Crazy how Rand was seen as some sort of intellectual for decades when her ideology sets the stage for literal fascism. Congratz on a job well done
Like “trickle down” I hope this stupid “free market” nonsense dies one day… if it was really a free market why are we all trapped with the same 5 companies owning every industry and the same families owning every company. Why does is 80% of the US wealth controlled by the top 10% where in the heck does a free market even exist… between the corporate sabotage and pay off and the investor class giving money to absolute failures that no one asked for in Silicon Valley… this is the absolute greatest lie is even the idea that “free market” even exists- the people demand renewable cheaper cars but apparently the “free market” is addicted to oil and high priced healthcare…. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
A market managed by the state and free of billionaire [rent-seeking behavior](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking?wprov=sfla1) is what prevents monopolies.
The fact is that our economy is broken because wealthy incumbents have been able to deform it to protect their wealth instead of having to compete with newcomers or innovate.
Lack of historical knowledge, fine. But can we address the utter lack of basic logic that goes with that quote? For someone so supposedly committed to reason, the very notion that a free market prevents monopolies is just plain stupid.
Well, maybe in a true free market. I wouldn’t say the US is an actual free market.
The problem with Rand’s writing the hidden underlying assumption of her work: the capitalist entrepreneur is ubiquitously virtuous, while the rest of society is vicious. With that, she can raise the capitalist to the highest heights: they create value to society, they pay fair wages, they are looking at society and for society in their endeavours. Everyone else is just looking at their own belly. It goes without saying that’s a simplistic and misleading view.
How is that a ‘murderedbywords’?
There isn’t any counterargument. It is just ‘ummmm ur wrong!!!’
What a shit post.
I don’t know that she’s necessarily wrong.
We don’t have a free market in the US. Corporations lobby the government to stifle competition and get welfare.
Her view of capitalism is definitely similar Marxism, as they’re both these unrealistic ideals.
She’s exactly right. We haven’t had anything resembling free markets in decades.