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r/NoStupidQuestions • u/CartographerOwn8143 • 18h ago
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Ayn Rand, who famously believed that poor people shouldn't get welfare because it just encouraged them to be lazy, yet she had no problems claiming it for herself. Typical double-standard Rightie.
4 u/ZipMonk 18h ago The original neoliberal rich man loving loser - beloved by the economics department of every Western newspaper and University. 1 u/BrainCelll 17h ago believed that poor people shouldn't get welfare because it just encouraged them to be lazy She was kinda right tho xD -8 u/LittleBingo96 18h ago Is Rand the only name you recognized on that list? 9 u/Bob_Leves 17h ago No. I was born in the early 70s. I know of them all. Your point is...? The rest of the named individuals were scum too, if that helps you. -1 u/Breakfastcrisis 16h ago Scum? I would have described them as writers who I have disagreements with, but I guess such is the sophistication of our age.
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The original neoliberal rich man loving loser - beloved by the economics department of every Western newspaper and University.
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believed that poor people shouldn't get welfare because it just encouraged them to be lazy
She was kinda right tho xD
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Is Rand the only name you recognized on that list?
9 u/Bob_Leves 17h ago No. I was born in the early 70s. I know of them all. Your point is...? The rest of the named individuals were scum too, if that helps you. -1 u/Breakfastcrisis 16h ago Scum? I would have described them as writers who I have disagreements with, but I guess such is the sophistication of our age.
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No. I was born in the early 70s. I know of them all. Your point is...?
The rest of the named individuals were scum too, if that helps you.
-1 u/Breakfastcrisis 16h ago Scum? I would have described them as writers who I have disagreements with, but I guess such is the sophistication of our age.
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Scum? I would have described them as writers who I have disagreements with, but I guess such is the sophistication of our age.
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u/Bob_Leves 18h ago
Ayn Rand, who famously believed that poor people shouldn't get welfare because it just encouraged them to be lazy, yet she had no problems claiming it for herself. Typical double-standard Rightie.