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Did Ayn Rand screw the world !

For those who enjoy reading a lot, you must know who Ayn Rand is. Her characters like Howard Roark are charcters you dont forget a lifetime.
Her characters usually had a high level of ego, and she propagated the 'selfish motive'.
While her characters and writings are honest in some sense, she has sadly glorified the egotism, and the self centered-ness, justifying that only a selfish man can give the best to the world A high number of mid to senior executives have read her writings, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and I am sure, were deeply influenced to be egotistic !!
This in a world of complete interdependence.

She is also supposed to be one of those who influenced the US of A for its strategy of consumerism..


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