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The Ayan Rand Institute: ‘We Took PPP Funds and Would Do It Again’
- LanguageGamer 6y agoCounterargument: If you believe that a system is immoral, its better to minimize your participation in that system, even if you're coerced to participate to a certain degree.
- ta17711771 6y agoBut...that requires not caring about furthering yourself.
- ta17711771 6y ago(Which is a hard sell for an overwhelming majority of the population)
- uberman 6y agoHaving read their statement on taking the aid (https://newideal.aynrand.org/to-take-or-not-to-take/ https://newideal.aynrand.org/to-take-or-not-to-take/) their argument boils down to: "we would be foolish not apply for and take a government handout and that it is OK for us to do so as we are pro-capitalists but bad for everyone else to do so." Rand's personal argument for this behavior and why she took government handouts including social security and medicare was: "Those who support such government handouts, have no right to them; those who oppose them have" I personally find the hypocrisy of this stunning.