Please don’t tell me “see a therapist” I know that already.

  • stringere@sh.itjust.works
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    Was Ayn Rand on welfare?

    Nothing wrong with welfare, just that she’s not the best example of successful seeing as she wrote about rugged self reliance and railed against welfare while also being dependent on it.

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      3 days ago

      She collected Social Security up until her death. It wasn’t welfare, but it was a government social program.

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        Typical libertarian. Spend a lifetime deriding socialism, only to die peacefully and comfortably because of the very programs they rail against.

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          Thank you for the clarification. I knee it was something which made her an absolute fraud and hypocrite with an espoused philosophy built on selfishness and greed.