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In sign of the times, Ayn Rand Institute approved for PPP loan
- wyldfire 6y agoI've yet to read any Rand works but I'm guessing John Galt would prefer the institute survive or perish on its own merits, independent of aid from the state.
- arcticbull 6y agoIn the case of: “... government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution, and that the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.” vs. "Rational self-interest" The winner is, clearly, rational self-interest.
- bpodgursky 6y agoIt is baity and trite to point out, for the Nth time, that an institution is taking advantage of a federal program which, while they may not have chosen for it to exist, they will be paying for in taxes.
- c0g 6y agoContext missing from the article is that this has Randian precedent: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand-social-security/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand-social-security/ (I have no opinion on it all since I’m on a two week ‘having an opinion on stuff’ vacation, just mildly interesting context)
- dang 6y agoYes, discussed in 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13264191 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13264191 and sundry comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=ayn%20rand%20social%20security&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Since every ideology has an answer for everything, there isn't much interesting to discuss about it.