Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distr…

Ayn Rand
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Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement. ✨ Ayn Rand (1999). Ayn Rand Reader, p.74, Penguin
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