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It would be stupid to be forced to pay for SS and not accept benefits - she wasn't dumb. Nor on welfare.

"Ayn Rand was not on welfare when she died. She was, however, receiving Social Security payments. "

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Ayn-Rand-died-on-welfare-and-in-fact-was-on-it-a-few-years?share=1

But good art can be made by bad people - didn't you read Freddie about that in the last couple weeks?

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Feb 5, 2022
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I prefer the Chile style "forced savings" retirement, which a person owns. Such a system, put in with Pinochet and Chicago Boys, has allowed Chile to become the richest S.A. country in 2022 after being one of the poorest in 1973.

Chileans recently voted in a socialist - so I expect the, not Voldemorting, but Venezuelization and reduced or negative growth in Chile.

Anybody forced to be in a system that includes payments and benefits, can be against the system but accept the benefits after paying in the payments. Without the SS, Rand wouldn't have starved. But her system's not worth arguing about.

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Feb 5, 2022
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Chile's economic success was heavily dependant on its nationalized copper mines, which even Pinochet didn't privatise

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Funny, Wrong, but funny. Another form of art called unknowing satire.

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Feb 6, 2022
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All of it. Fundamentally wrong. Rand lived what she wrote about. People with your opinions only fantasize about yet another failed attempt at collectivism... the collection of ideologies that always fail and always end up in more profound human misery, suffering and death.

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