Rational Self Interest

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I understand why Ayn Rand is in this comic, but she never financed a damn thing. She was working class herself and on welfare at the end of her life.

and on welfare at the end of her life.

You are just repeating what others have stated online without looking into this claim yourself.

www.snopes.com/…/ayn-rand-social-security/

She took Social Security and Medicare benefits. She also paid into those. She also paid taxes.

It is morally defensible for those who decry publicly-funded scholarships, Social Security benefits,

and unemployment insurance to turn around and accept them, Rand argued, because the government

had taken money from them by force (via taxes). There’s only one catch: the recipient must regard the

receipt of said benefits as restitution, not a social entitlement.

If she paid into Social Security and Medicare and paid taxes then what is the issue? The paragraph above states

that she did not believe her actions to be hypocrisy because she had paid taxes.

FACT CHECK: Did Ayn Rand Receive Social Security Benefits?

The "Atlas Shrugged" author called government handouts "immoral," but there is evidence that she accepted Social Security benefits in her later years — and that it was consistent with her worldview to do so.

Snopes

There’s only one catch: the recipient must regard the receipt of said benefits as restitution, not a social entitlement.

Oh, so magic thought games change the nature of reality. Got it!