I can only hear this in Professor Farnsworth’s voice.
Best part about Rand is how she died on welfare.
it really is the best end to her awful story
It basically invalidates her whole ideology and utterly discredits her. I’ll take it as a win.
i don’t know if i’d go that far-- maybe just that she died a sad hypocrite. but it does undermine her credibility quite a bit. i’d say that anyone with even a basic education in economics could totally discredit her, though.
from what I remember reading, she not only was never really good with money, but she was also a bit out of it in her final years, so her husband was managing her/their finances. he had been receiving and depositing her social security checks for years (and possibly some medicare benefits), but she wasn’t actually aware of it. IIRC, it came out later when he was interviewed about her.
yeah completely agree
We should kill people that invest in new machines? I dont get it.
There are 6 other panels in that comic that provide context
Yeah im grasping the concept. What about you?
Well the concept isn’t “kill people who invest in machines” so between that and the part where you literally said you didn’t “get it” I’m guessing you aren’t actually grasping anything.
Of course, how this would actually work:
Workers: “What do we get?”
AR: “Well, half of you are fired, the other half keep working just as hard.”
<later>
AR: “What’s with the guillotine?”
Workers: “We’re acting in our rational self-interest.”
AR: “I see.”
AR: <to the fired workers> “They’re the reason you can’t get a job. If they didn’t form a UNION to keep you OUT, you’d be doing just fine! And I can’t fire THEM, thanks to the UNION.”
AR: <to the employed workers> “Well, I’d love to give you more time off, but I can’t, because those MOOCHERS over there are freeloading on the system, and I gotta pay outrageous taxes for their welfare because THEY DON’T WORK.”
Media: “Let’s talk to two experts in the labor field.”
Expert 1: “Oh, the problem is definitely abusive, bloated unions and exclusive contracts.”
Expert 2: “Oh, the problem is definitely freeloading welfare queens.”
Workers: <try to push each other into the guillotine>
AR: Flies away in her golden private jet, “MUHAHAHAHAHA!”
