"Do You Wish To Know?"
Dec 30, 2017 09:12:10 #
"Do You Wish To Know?"
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"Then you will see the rise of the men of the double standard- the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their l**ted money- the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and l**ters-by-law- men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims- then money becomes its creators' avenger. Such l**ters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they've passed a law to disarm them. But their l**t becomes the magnet for other l**ters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter.
Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion- when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing- when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors- when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice- you may know that your society is doomed."
An excerpt from “Atlas Shrugged,” by Ayn Rand.
Full text of “Francisco’s Money Speech” is here:
- http://capitalismmagazine.com/2002/08/franciscos-money-speech/
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"Then you will see the rise of the men of the double standard- the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their l**ted money- the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and l**ters-by-law- men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims- then money becomes its creators' avenger. Such l**ters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they've passed a law to disarm them. But their l**t becomes the magnet for other l**ters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter.
Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion- when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing- when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors- when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice- you may know that your society is doomed."
An excerpt from “Atlas Shrugged,” by Ayn Rand.
Full text of “Francisco’s Money Speech” is here:
- http://capitalismmagazine.com/2002/08/franciscos-money-speech/
Dec 30, 2017 09:20:53 #
Dec 30, 2017 12:00:25 #
no propaganda please
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pafret wrote:
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Glad you provided a way to get to that GREAT speech. I have posted a line or two from it a number of times but being able to post the way to get to the entire thing is wonderful!! Atlas Shrugged should be required reading in high school. An entire college course on economics should be on this book and its ramifications.
Dec 30, 2017 14:44:46 #
pafret wrote:
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Atlas Shrugged should be a required read in all high schools, universities, and colleges.
Dec 31, 2017 09:33:02 #
Dec 31, 2017 11:57:33 #
cali wrote:
What is this fukkery
It is "fukkery" you should not read, it is beyond your comprehension and can be of no value to you. Try reading Dick and Jane primers.
Dec 31, 2017 13:21:39 #
Chocura750 wrote:
"Money is the barometer of society's virtue". So it seems Rand was a Trumpist.
Nice quote. Taken completely out of context. Go back and read it again, only this time read the sentences before and after it as well.
By the way, 'Trumpist'? Never heard of it. Got a (credible) definition or is that another one of those 'isms' you people live by?
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