Breezing EZE

Ayn Rand warned us in 1957, in Atlas Shrugged, exactly what happens when a society turns against its producers. When you must obtain permission from people who produce nothing in order to produce; when money flows to those who deal in favors rather than goods; when men grow rich by graft and pull rather than by work; and when the law protects the looters instead of the productive then corruption is rewarded and honesty becomes a liability. That society is doomed. Rand got one thing wrong: the problem isn’t limited to the men in government. It includes the liberal women (and the broader progressive class) who cheer the same assault on those who actually build, invent, and employ. The arithmetic of Elon’s companies (hundreds of thousands of direct jobs and well over a million supported livelihoods) is precisely the kind of productive achievement her critics refuse to acknowledge. Let’s pray Elon never decides to “go Galt.”