Re: The irony, tragedy and morbid humor of Ayn Rand

From: Pete Lynn (pete_at_peterlynnkites.com)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:32:58 +1300

"Clouseau2" <eric@webmethods.com> wrote in message
news:1104779089.867243.326320@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Pete Lynn wrote:
> > The corrupt big business you talk of is the government
> > integrated variety, as per Dandy Tagget's brother,
> > (whatever his name was), Boyle, etc., in Atlas
> > Shrugged. In our world Boeing, Enron, etc. The free
> > industrialists are the likes of Scaled composites, small
> > successful startups, etc. Those who are competent in
> > their own right and do not need government "help".
>
> That is where the irony comes in. The corruption that she
> despised has created her utopian corporate environment!

No, the corruption that she despised has resulted in the quasi
government corporate socialism that she really despised. The corrupt
big business you speak of has more to do with government than it does
with private industry. If an industry is not openly competitive, then
directly or indirectly, it is government.

Big corrupt business works by establishing and maintaining a monopoly
via corruption, (I use the term loosely), and then using that monopoly
to extort money from the people. Think mob protection racket. In so
doing it tries to become a government unto itself. This is morally
reprehensible to a meritocratic "free industrialist".

Her utopian corporate environment is a grass roots thing, every business
competing on a level playing field around the world without government
influence. She placed great emphasis on very intense but also very fair
and honest competition in the market place. Put simply, a business
meritocracy. This is all she was ever about.

Pete.

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