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Re:Ayn Rand Institute accepts $1m PPP loan from The State by worik on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:40PM (#23764995)
“the government has no wealth of its own…. It can only redistribute the wealth of others.”

Not only hypocrisy but also economic illiteracy.

Money != Wealth.

How terrifying that people like this get so powerful in a super state like the USA. Craven greed mixed with such refusal to deal with what is real mixed with heartlessness on a industrial scale.

Breathtaking

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Re:Ayn Rand Institute accepts $1m PPP loan from The State by nickff on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @07:10PM (#23765278)
>"How terrifying that people like this get so powerful in a super state like the USA"

How powerful do you think the Ayn Rand Institute is? From what I can see they are a marginally influential think-tank.

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Re:Ayn Rand Institute accepts $1m PPP loan from The State by worik on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @08:47PM (#23765894)
Very powerful

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_influenced_by_A...

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Re:Ayn Rand Institute accepts $1m PPP loan from The State by nickff on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @08:58PM (#23765946)
That list includes people such as Bryan Caplan, who said: "I rejected Objectivism", so I'm not sure exactly how much I would trust it.
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Re:Ayn Rand Institute accepts $1m PPP loan from The State by worik on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @11:42PM (#23776733)
Fair enough It missed (IIRC) Russ Roberts What ever Alan Greenspan is frightening enough on his own
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