“rewarding those who overspend, underwork, or are just plain unproductive.”
In other words, Kill The Poor and Eat Them–It’s Good Business.
The so-called standard of full employment is about 4.5%. I believe actual joblessness is currently around 6%. These figures are comfortable distancing for lack of contact with “the parasites”. But that’s 18,000,000 living, breathing human beings including their families.
And this doesn’t even count the people who work at the bottom of the national retail and service food chain whose wonderful employers dump them onto Medicaid, Free Clinics, or Hospital Emergency Room charity care.
If anyone here actually has the nerve and the courage to examine of what real life is like for four of them [under psudeonyms to protect what shreds of privacy they have left], just click on the link attached to my name.
I’d also suggest to you all a trip to one of the Food Pantries, Free Clinics, or the Jobs–Skills–and Public Assistance offices, to do a little observation and eavesdropping and learn a little about the real people who are the “last hired–first fired”, whom Ayn Rand dismissed so disdainfully.
Objectivism is no philosophy for grown ups
That’s who “the Poor” are, that’s who the “parasites” are. And this economy has been deliberately managed, from obsessive paranoia about Inflation, to keep millions of people unemployed or underemployed for the rest of their lives.
They should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps? As a psychologist you should know better. The capacity and talent to do that is distributed unequally just like any other human talent. If you are in forensics you should also know what a con who wants to go straight faces in a country with a constant supply of “surplus labor”, who can stand a background check [another one of those disingenuous distancing euphemisms].
Who is John Galt?
Who cares?
