If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did …

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If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.240, Penguin
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