Horsesh**. You obviously didn't read this little gem:
To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.
Then there's this litte gem which proves that Rand wasn't merely an author, she was a prophet:
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion--when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing--when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors--when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you--when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice--you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that is does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.
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I just finished that chapter last night. I love the book and have to admit that at age 66 I am just getting to Ayn Rand.
I saw a movie last evening:”The Passion of Ayn Rand”.
Made her look like cheating wife except her husband approved.
Kinda put the damper on my love for AS.