AYN RAND

Some people love her others don't...

1) She sought to provide,through her philosophy a reasoned moral defense of capitalism

2) She is rabidly antisocialist

3) She believes in a basically libertarian program of minimal govt -  She believes that only those govt offices that serve to protect private property and commerce should exist. The courts, military, police, basically.

4) Ayn Rand was the first philosopher to build a philosophy on metaphysics of objective reality, and thus ethics that one's actions and interests should not be divorced

5) She says the current evil afflicting public morality is "collectivism" which is an anti - individualist and ultimately an enslaving morality. She believes, no one has a claim to the fruit of anyone's else's labor. Freedom to contract should be preserved, as should freedom of property and freedom to dispense or share that property as one wishes. but no one has a right to take from another without their consent, as in through taxation.  Though her ideas do rely on supposedly "minimal" taxation...

6) Obviosuly she doesn't believe in welfare, public schools, public roads, public libraries, etc., because they are all coerced from people. If some want a library they can build it themselves

7) You can't complain if you get a poor wage because, hey, you accepted that job, no one held a gun to your head. you don't like it, you leave and find a beter one. A lot of that is basic capitalist apologetics. But she expanded it into an almost metaphysical realm and waxed poetic on individual freedom of choice, man's "true nature" etc. A lot o sexist ideas came out of it

8) 3 of her books... One, Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal, has 4 essays by a younger Alan Greenspan, arguing against anti trust laws and consumer protection agencies in the government

Alan says that there is no need for organisations like the FDA or for safety regulations for  people selling unsafe products or if they swindle you. He says that the corrupt seller will lose his business naturally by building a bad reputation.

So basically your death contributes to a business's bad reputation.

The govt doesn't need to inspect or enforce safety regulations in products or in the workplace because businesses, if they want to stay in business, will have future profitability as an incentive to be decent people -- sounds good in theory but in reality, a business slowly going out of business after it has ended up killing off 500 people is pretty mianthropic. Plus, businesses now are so entangled in the state and media apparatus they can falsify information or suppress it so the public would never know.