[artimaeis]

She spent a lot of words making really solid arguments about how segregation has taken hold in some of the most influential and profitable sectors of the modern world. Let’s not pretend that casting people from it does not have consequences.

The technocracy does not tolerate other communities - that’s also another of her points. The powers that drive this machine are malignant and constantly striving for monopolization and domination. Competition has become a thing to be avoided, rather than relished.

[arkh]

> The powers that drive this machine are malignant and constantly striving for monopolization and domination. Competition has become a thing to be avoided, rather than relished.

So, Ayn Rand was right in her diagnosis?

[artimaeis]

It's been a while since I read Rand - but I thought she felt that those monopolistic forces would use the government to empower that monopolistic behavior. What we're seeing is that if the government does nothing then that monopolization absolutely continues.

I don't see a way the free market alone could deliver us from this. Well crafted and enforced antitrust legislation seems to be the only thing that has ever worked against this kind of force. The key in that is making sure we don't elect an oligarchy who wields that antitrust to defend their interests.