Fighting Inequality Means Breaking Legs

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Channel: Ayn Rand Institute · 2016 · Nonprofits & Activism

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If you leave people free, you’re going to get enormous economic inequality because different people produce different amounts of wealth. So how can the government make people equal? Only one way: use physical force to prop some people up and to pull other people down. But how is that fair?

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