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A comment on "Francisco's Money Speech" by Ayn Rand. Parent comment

Re:"Francisco's Money Speech" by Ayn Rand by Ein2015 on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @11:11AM (#501537)
The company was going to be nationalized, essentially stolen from him, anyway. Thus, investors didn't matter in his decision to give the nation nothing in return for stealing his company.
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Re:"Francisco's Money Speech" by Ayn Rand by sethg on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @11:47AM (#501592)
If I tear your wallet out of your pocket and set it on fire, I can't escape prosecution for theft by saying "there was this guy coming down the street who was going to mug us anyway, so you haven't really lost anything".
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