Misery how? If you don't work you don't eat? That's misery?
That’s why her books refute progressives so easily. Because they envision the same world of misery, only with different masters and slaves.
Well, the way I see it today you and I are the (tax)slaves of the miserable non-working class who believes they're ENTITLED to that which we work for and produce, simply because they exist. I refute that point.
I would much rather live in Rand's economic world where those who choose to sit on their ass and do nothing to provide for themselves suffer the consequences for it - rather than you and I being forced by the Government's wealth redistribution schemes to continue paying "benefits" for them.
And read my words very carefully: those who choose to sit on their ass and do nothing.
She wrote this 50-60 years ago, and I was quoting someone else. Get off your high horse.