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Originally Posted by varmint
You might try reading one of her books. The fact that you think libertarian ideas can be forced on others show you never have.
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Well, I have read Atlas Shrugged.
I recall that she envisions a world where "virtuous" hard working people feel themselves trapped in a dystopian world of lazy ****heads.
The characters and themes are basically as complex as good guys and bad guys on the Batman TV series.
Anyway, the "good guys" become so frustrated that they chose, surreptitiously, to live in a (ironically - did you notice?) communistic society of elites who, collectively live like plebes gardening and so on, swapping meagre elements of production.
They all live happily ever after swapping tomatoes and leather gloves.
Ayn Rand makes a model of libertarian life? Be a hermit and happy with a great garden knowing that no lazy dip**** is taking advantage of your hard work?
And somehow no element of competition exists amongst these libertarian elites?
They are quite content to exchange their intellectual gifts and production with each other with no interest in competitive advantage?
Dream on Ayn Rand. Dream on a bit less Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes.