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Who else thinks what Ayn Rand predicted is opposite of reality.


Ayn Rand predicted that the government was going to take over the corporations. What's really happening is that the corporations are taking over the government.

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that's one example, but rand's writings and reality only rarely intersect.

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It may be that corporations are taking over the government nowadays, but she was pretty spot on about how it would come down.

Just looking at the U.S. politics, we have billionaires running the nation, however they are not the best or the brightest, they are the moochers that just want to take from the rich to make themselves richer.

Don't want to turn this into a huge political argument, but Trump became rich by exploiting the system and suing companies for pointing out that he is a showman / con artist and not a brilliant businessman. Same could be said for most of his cabinet picks.

That sort of goes along exactly with Ayn Rand's philosophy. The schemers use / pass laws that push their own agenda and profit off of the actual doers.

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