Some people feel fulfilled by sexually assaulting women or children. Some people feel fulfilled by firing people randomly in order to ensure that employees fear them. Some people feel fulfilled by selling toxic financial instruments to other rich people all the while knowing they're a time bomb. Some people feel fulfilled by cutting costs of production by firing hard-working people and hiring a foreign company and using slave labor - because they'll get better stock options and a new yacht.
Seeking fulfillment is always OK, right?
Maybe - just maybe! - the issue isn't whether or not a person is rich or in a position to get rich. Maybe the issue is what people in power choose to do with their power.
And that is incompatible with ayn rand's fairly simplistic rich = good philosophy. The immortal leader of the ayn rand glee club, alan greenspan, even admitted on the record that he made the mistake during the inflating of the finance bubble of believing that powerful people would innately do the right thing.
It's interesting that most people have observed and understood that to be absurd on face for centuries. But the great greenspan couldn't figure it out until our economy became a smoldering hole in the ground. But it seems that those stuck in the make-believe world of ayn rand's vacuous philosophy seem to fall the fastest for that one. The better the suit, the more you can get away with.
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