The free market facilitates the creation of businesses; innovation across many fields, for example in new technology, health, the Internet, and renewable energy; and affords undeniable opportunities to young entrepreneurs wishing to start up business activities that will further society. We have also seen that commercial exchange between democratic nations considerably reduces the risk of armed conflict between them. Yet, in the absence of any safeguard, the free market permits a predatory use of financial systems, giving rise to an increase in oligarchies, inequality, exploitation of the poorest producers, and the monetization of several aspects of human life whose value derives from anything other than money.
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/21/ayn_rand_killed_the_american_dream_our_free_market_economy_only_works_for_the_1_percent/
As a person who has read all of Ayn Rand's novels and many of her "philosophical" works, I have to agree. She and her acolyte Alan Greenspan absolutely gutted the American dream. And they sowed the seeds of the current anti-Christian movement as well.
If we ever have a true book burning in the US, all her books ought to be the first ones tossed into the flames.
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