• @zokr
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    310 months ago

    Ayn Rand depended on the government welfare programs before she died. She didn’t even believe her own bullshit.

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand-social-security/


    It is morally defensible for those who decry publicly-funded scholarships, Social Security benefits,

    and unemployment insurance to turn around and accept them, Rand argued, because the government

    had taken money from them by force (via taxes). There’s only one catch: the recipient must regard the

    receipt of said benefits as restitution, not a social entitlement.


    If she paid into Social Security and Medicare and paid taxes then what is the issue? The paragraph above states

    that she did not believe her actions to be hypocrisy because she had paid taxes.

    • @YarHarSuperstar
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      010 months ago

      What is your deal? Why are you all over this thread defending Ayn Rand?