[Redcloak]

He says great American industrialists were in fact community-minded... The philosophy of Atlas Shrugged does not explain successful CEOs such as Milton Hershey, who during the Depression provided employees of his chocolate company with free medical care and paid off the mortgages of every church in town, [Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, CEO of the Leadership Institute at Yale University] says.

Sonnenfeld doesn't understand the difference between Hershey's charity and government taxation. Hershey did what he did because he wanted to; not because big government commanded him to do so.

[RipSawyer]

Sonnenfeld doesn't understand the difference between Hershey's charity and government taxation. Hershey did what he did because he wanted to; not because big government commanded him to do so.

And there is a huge difference, such things done voluntarily tend to inspire devoted employees who give their all but when done at government command they are seen as no more than what is deserved or even less.