• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Ayn Rand wrote a very silly book about how the government was interfering with railroads and how that was a terrible, terrible thing.

    It’s always a good day when something Ayn Rand suggested is once again shown to be utter nonsense.

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        4 months ago

        It’s certainly a far more entertaining watch than Atlas Shrugged is to read. It’s just awful. I couldn’t even get all the way through it, I ended up reading a summary.

        But two things in it really made me laugh-

        1. That railroads would work better if the government had no involvement (good luck laying track without eminent domain).
        2. The solution to the world’s problems involves violating the laws of physics.

        And people take it seriously.

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          4 months ago

          Government is better at X… because it can steal stuff. Yay for the government, I guess… :D

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            4 months ago

            When it comes to rail? Yes. How do you propose putting in rail lines without eminent domain?

            And we desperately need more rail in this country.