I abandoned Reddit long ago. Their moderators are all advocates for the left, so my "stuff" never got anywhere.

Yes. Exactly the way they learned to use "green language" to hijack the environmental agenda back in the 1980's. That subject is the one I know very well.

He who controls CO2 controls the world, and even life itself.

LOL. "Too intense", I like that. We need more folks to be "too intense" about freedom and liberty right now.

Crickets is the end reply of any conversation with a socialist or their ilk. Somebody else will take care of the details of whatever it is the left wants to reward the sheeple with.

Absolutely correct, Sir. I had forgotten the time-value of money to just get the business going and continuing prior to showing a profit. Thanks for the reminder, Rob.

Thanks. I have a good grasp on the concepts in Atlas, but the way the Left uses terms such as anarchy, totalitarianism and my favourite pair - Force vs Violence are a new area for me. Know the enemy!

If all it took was "landmass and slavery", the USSR and its gulags should have made it he richest empire in history. Yet it collapsed in 73 years.

Very well said. Not long ago I happened to read an
article by a NY liberal who wanted to spend more
money on some program or other. She was beloved
by her readers and I gave a polite comment
mentioning that we are broke and also men-
tioned that the U.S. became wealthy due to
freedom. Those readers decended on me like
hungry mosquitos, and one gave me a lesson
about the U.S. which became rich due to
"landmass and slavery."
And that's all we are up against ?

Why does it always got to be the father.. My wife just left 2 months ago with all our money while I'm recovering from heart surgery with 2 minor ( 1 & 5) children,

Make your mother a MockingJay pin. Catch fire, be free.

Very interesting. Yes... I remember when I took my son for his first camping trip when he was 2. I had just watched the Grapes of Wrath a couple weeks earlier. The campground where we stayed reminded me of the camp in the story where the kids in the story were begging Ma for food. I'll never forget that. It was 2007. About 1/3 of the campground was people who had lost their homes. Miserable...

Our population is so rife with dumb sheep - just mindless, hapless victims.

My mother lived in Cuba for a while. The poor there have a donkey if they're lucky. A bar of soap or a bottle of mosquito repellant is gold to them.

Well said, though.

I like Walter E. Williams money description. Money is a chit, proof I have served my fellow man.
I did something for another, that person paid me.
These commies are just as lazy as Marx. Got done with college and tried to find a way for some one to take the money from others and give it to me. Oh and for the bribe, I will vote....

Oh you don't understand, everyone should just be given a house! To quote my brother-in-law. I ask him who is going to cut the wood, mix the paint, dig the foundation, crickets.

I started a software business. The first year, I paid myself once a month, if I was lucky. I had to make sure all the employees were paid first - and the taxes. then I automated the sales on the website, I got rid of the the person taking phone orders. then I automated a tech position with an online self-help system. then I was able to draw a regular paycheck - and it still wasn't anymore than I would have made had I stayed in the work force. But it was mine to grow, or not.

The thing I see is that it is what is currently happening in our country. He brings up the scenario of the bum saying that people were paid on a matter of need instead of merit. Capitalism is a matter of being paid on merit. If you are more valuable to a company, you are compensated at a higher level. If you build your skill set up, you are usually more valuable. Our government, through it's myriad of welfare programs, pays as a matter of need. The more children you have, the more welfare, the higher SNAP benefits, housing, energy assistance and so on. A school friend of my wife's got caught up in this. She had 3 kids by 3 different fathers. Never married any of them and they are about 12 years apart, so she never had to work. Welfare and assistance covered her, her kids and also paid for her schooling. She finally finished school and tried to go to work, she could not do it. She did not understand that you were compensated for your skills and knowledge. She could not adapt to the working world and she wound up back on subsistence benefits. These are people that suck our system dry. There are other factors involved, but it is a vicious cycle, her kids (grown now) are also on subsistence and it goes on and on.

Dear socialists trolling on this site,
Rand knew more about the failings of your bankrupt philosophy in its practical application than any of you. She lived in it and escaped to a better way of life here in the United States. History shows us that socialism and communism ignore a basic truth of human nature- that humans are best incentivized towards productivity by the prospect of self-betterment. Taking this away with a "from each....to each" philosophy leads to mass apathy and generalized misery (except for those that run things- remember, socialism is never for the socialist). Stressing the importance of hard work and self-advancement with the least amount of government intrusion is the most effective way to create wealth for an entire society- history proves this. My observation is that socialists oppose capitalism out of simple jealousy. They aren't able to achieve the success which they feel entitled to so they want to take it at the point of a spear.

A Marxist friend who is an advocate of helping the down-and-out--but is himself generally productive--actually volunteers at a homeless shelter. (He helps feed bums, in my language.) He occasionally reaps what he sows... (read on)...

He helped a college-educated street bum get a job. She went off to her job on a Monday. Tuesday she was back on the street. "What happened?" said my friend.

"Oh, I couldn't work there. It's impossible."

"Well, what's wrong?"

"They expect me to show up every day at 9:00 AM. I can't do THAT!"

On another occasion he got an earful from a bum who he had allowed to sleep for a few nights on the floor in his apartment. The bum had been out with friends, and had absorbed some discussions of "street" philosophy. Came back that night and started telling my friend that the problems of the world were all caused by "The Jew." My Marxist friend is Jewish. Even though he claims he's the only atheist in his Orthodox congregation, the insults were too much for him. He evicted the bum.

To me those stories are an excellent object lesson in the "immorality of selflessness." (I'm inverting the title of a well-known book.)

Yes. Faith and Force go hand in hand. Marxists have such an unshakeable faith in Marx's collectivist ideas that they are willing to evade the reality of its failures and turn to force. They remind me of two-year olds throwing temper tantrums.