NP: inadvertent snipe at Ayn Rand

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 15:42:41 CST 2009


grladams mentioned:
>  "going
>  Galt" means retreating from producing so that the fruit of one's labor no
>  longer has to be taxed and fed into the collecivists endless black hole.
>

hee hee, like the doctors' strikes where the death rate goes down,
the retreat of robber barons from the public sphere might have unintended
positive consequences

there are people who can produce news without having
a Rupert Murdoch at the helm, or raise pigs without having a Smithfield
Ham to concentrate the excrement, or invent stuff without having some
shadowy conglomerate own and suppress all their patents...




-- 
- "The doctor said give him jug band music; it seems to make him feel
just fine!"



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