What incentive do survey companies have to ever actually ask any person any questions? They are paid to produce a result. No one asks about the historical reputation of the surveyor—we just consume the results as fact.
What incentive do survey companies have to ever actually ask any person any questions? They are paid to produce a result. No one asks about the historical reputation of the surveyor—we just consume the results as fact.
The "doomed society" Rand describes is one where meritocracy has been replaced by statism and corruption. She held a lifelong hatred of collectivism instead rooting for laissez-faire capitalism and the total separation of state and economics.
Love the Marxist ideology dog whistle. Rand’s entire moral code was based on the Trader Principle: giving value for value. The borrower receives the value of time (they get the money now rather than waiting ten years to save it). The lender receives the value of interest (payment for the risk taken and the temporary loss of the use of their own money). To Rand, charging interest is no different than charging rent for a building or a price for a loaf of bread. It is a voluntary, mutually beneficial exchange.