Great op/ed refuting "you didn't build that".

[M. Sage]

Revenge Of The Zeros: The Battle Between Ayn Rand And Collectivism Reaches A Climax - Forbes

Ahh, collectivism; the religious belief that human beings are nothing but the cells of some mythical critter called a "society".

 

[AcidFlashGordon]

+1000. That's an excellent rebuttal. Thanks for the link. It WILL be spread around.

 

[XinTX]

This quote explains a lot:

"It’s bad enough to be a parasite, but it really turns ugly when the parasites deny the existence of those whose blood they are feeding off, when they take over what others built while snarling that the others didn’t build it."

This is why I think that statement wasn't to ease the conscience of those who know they are slackers, it's to justify the looting that's being planned. They're trying to provide a justification so that the looter class will feel themselves noble when they take from the producers. A lot of those Ayn Rand book quotes by Ferris and Taggart (both of the 'looter class') were their own ravings as they struggled to define their own justification for looting the productivity of others.