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Rand was a writer The need to produce characters that show the traits you are trying to examine leads to overkill, wrong range of function, but a story larger than life that does sell.

Rand was an anti commie, who tried to whitewash capitalism.

It is not that simple, in any culture there are those who preserve the good, those who inovate the new, and those who leach, claim to represent humanity, and have plans to arrange the economy of others, for the greater good of all.

The problem is that is the extent of their plan. They often destroy what they claimed they would fix.

School bussing, did not raise the blacks to equality, it did destroy public education. It now exists as Teachers Unions, Public Employees that fail to turn out a quality product up to the standards set by a one room school house. Universities are a branch of government with a football team.

Social goals destroyed schools, and then wanted to do the same for business.

Government is supposed to do things that are needed but unprofitable. Some like Public Health and Education are to be provided at public expense, as they are common to all goals.

Hijacking them for Social Justice goals destroys the original purpose.

Horatio Alger stories were about looking about and finding people who were doing things you admired, then introducing yourself, as a fan of productive people. It came before "How To Win Friends and Influance People," was pitched to boys, but is the same story.

Seek the company of better people, those with goals, if you wish to improve your lot in life.

Understand that most want to complain, conive, do the least, and hold sucess in contempt. Be the other guy, one of the few that sees the good, makes the effort to understand how the person is benefiting the world, and deal with them as the best person they are.

While you can see them as good, there must be much more, that you would like to know. A positive view, get people talking about themselves, and you have made a friend who will give you an education that cannot be had otherwise.

Carnagie Steel was considered the meanest man that ever owned a steel mill, then he gave all of his money to build Public Libraries. If praised for producing the steel that made railroads, ships, buildings, and asked what was most needed, I am sure he would say, "An educated workforce." If a poor but earnest young man asked him what field he should study, I am sure his advice would be worth more than gold.

Tell him his mill needed a Union, he would not show you the door, but throw you out the window.

Tell him he had to hire blacks, women, homosexuals, and he would invite you upstairs, and throw you out a higher window.

If you can understand what people are trying to do in an adverse world, speak to the best self they have, you might learn something.

Ben Franklin wrote of a reserved man, hard to meet, and Franklin wanted his printing business. Successful people are often hard to meet. Franklin heard he had a book, when books were scarce, knowledge rare, and he went hat in hand and asked if he could read it. A desire to gain knowledge got him the print job, and made a friend.

The problem is there are few people, and many hamburgers. Hamburgers form mobs, have slogans, and demand something for nothing. Hamburgers have destroyed that which majority rule can destroy, and think it should also work on private property.

That factory that used to be in your town moved, and left no forwarding address.

Hamburgers are not good at math, when you run out the productive, you have to feed yourself, by taxing other hamburgers. All hamburgers are equal.

I am sure that a $20 minium wage, full health care, three weeks paid vacation would solve all your problems, except who is going to pay it.

I am sure with your degree in Social Justice and Gender Studies you will be able to create an economy just as all before you have. No one can tell you what to do, or owes you a living.

some prefer the old order of things, no matter what.

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Our greatest advantage over them is that there are more of us than them.