The Francisco d'Anconia money speech gets quoted a lot for its insight into the nature of money, but today I would like to emphasize its secondary point:
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A corrupt class of capitalists who fundamentally don't understand the relationship between those who create value and the numbers on paper (or screen) that correspond to their notional wealth, inevitably fail to deserve that wealth, as well as failing to protect it.
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Whatever nobility there is in capitalism, in markets, is incompatible with treating human beings like gears and cogs in a slot machine that you feed money into to get more money out of. If even Ayn Rand understood this then what the fuck is your excuse?
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Rand overemphasized the value of the administrative and planning class, because of course she did, but the capitalism of today has become so nihilistic that it doesn't even value these people except as numbers on a page.
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