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Many people bring up this "inequality" thing, but it never "clicked" for him, he says...
People who think like that give me the absolute heebie jeebies.
I mean, I was done with him after he asked me three goddamn times if money votes-- I can't even figure out WTF gotcha he thinks he's trapping me in with that one, but he's very proud of himself. Thing is he'll run in circles forever and never learn.
The persistent undercurrent with these smug Randian jerks is this hideous attitude of, "well it's not our fault consumers/voters are stupid, if suckers want things that aren't good for them they deserve what they get, now congratulate the people smart enough to profit off of exploiting them" and "everyone is a selfish jerk, life is just gonna suck for those who aren't good at it, and the people who ARE good at it naturally earn the right to rule" which just boils down to the same old, might-makes-right fascist bullshit.
Then they dress it up with pretty talk of progress and how the standard of living has improved oh so much, as if most of us aren't about to die horribly over the next hundred years. They say capitalism only works if it improves the lives of everyone making the transactions-- so beautiful! So mutually beneficial! Tra la la!
...Slavery is immensely profitable. The only lives that matter in those transactions are those of the masters.
But there's no slavery anymore, see, it's all voluntary.
Reminds me of how the IDF has the balls to call it a "voluntary" evacuation when people run away from bombs. Voluntary.
These people don't understand consent. Only coercion. They don't believe there IS any such thing as contentment or satisfaction or altruism, because they've never felt it. "There is no such thing as enough".
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