Face value? More like facetious value. I think you missed the supreme irony. It took the author quoting Ayn Rand in a paper about how stupid people miscalibrate

Face value? More like facetious value. I think you missed the supreme irony. It took the author quoting Ayn Rand in a paper about how stupid people miscalibrate financial expectations as deliciously snarky. (Her delusional followers will indignantly disagree, but that's kind of the point, isn't it?) Using Ayn Rand's own words to call her and her followers idiots. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38541723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38541723 Wow, talk about an ironic quote: >"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." —Ayn Rand Well that just about sums up the Libertarian mindset and its unintended, unavoidable consequences, doesn't it? In conjunction with the conclusions of the paper, it's not very flattering to Ayn Rand's or her followers' cognitive abilities.