When I was a teenager I read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. I thought it was an okay fantasy, but not one you should take seriously.
But, there was a scene that stuck with me. In it, one of the main characters considers a villain who wants to increase taxes. The good character then envisions the villain as an oriental potentate, eager to stab a peasant just to gain a few more grains of rice.
And, of course, here we are, decades later…and there is something ironic about that image in Atlas Shrugged. To wit, it wasn’t the nasty old socialists who fit the image of the oriental potentate, but rather the billionaire bros who today run the government through their orange tool. It is they who fill the role…as they kill social security, medicaid, and much else, and thus condemn the aged and the infirm to slow starvation.
All for just a few more pennies in their own pockets… for a microscopic increase in their already obscene fortunes…which neither they nor their remotest descendants could ever hope to spend.
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