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I come from a country devastated by socialism. Having read the history of socialism in detail and the destruction and devastation caused by it (think Stalin), it is clear that socialism has failed as well. I would never support socialism in any form. Not withstanding my personal experiences with it — you only have to read the entire history of world communism to learn that it only brought misery to millions.
However, I do think we have seen enough to know that Capitalism does not work either. And this comes from a person who has read all of Ayn Rand’s books over & over again until I grew out of them!
Going by Ayn Rand’s definition of Capitalism, almost all the companies today are run by “moochers” as she called the “bad” capitalists in her books. There is no Howard Roark or a John Galt, we can look up to. Even Apple as a company has diverted purely towards making “money by any and all means necessary”, rather than producing anything of real value which actually contributes something in a tangible manner to science and technology like say Edison or Newton.
I don’t play video games because I see the computer which was really came into being during WW2 to defeat pure evil being…
