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Huh. Surely there’s not that many angry Ayn Randers on here. I presume most who are are teens without much life experience.

• benreesman 4y ago
  That’s quite a fair point, I tend to use Ayn Rand as a bit of a shorthand for folks who are wildly free-market but only in very specific verticals. She’s probably the most effective lobbyist against social welfare who wrote her missives literally on the dole. My reflex to her as an example is only reinforced by her close association with Alan Greenspan who so successfully dismantled all the business-cycle shock absorbers that it’s been a real rollercoaster ever since, and who had the gall to play word games with Congress on television when questioned in that infamous testimony about the complete and utter empirical disproof of basically every policy decision he and Summers ever cornered in a dark all off K street over. Really quite an unpleasant scene.