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'Cast Was Shrugged' is a multi level object lesson


First movie was decent, had me looking forward, then aliens abducted all the people from the first movie and replaced them with humans that really didn't look like them at all.

The aliens replaced everyone it seems, so no one noticed.

Didn't remember this part from High School, was such a dry read I must have used 'Cliff Notes' on that portion.

Anyway, the lesson I took from 'Cast Was Shrugged' is that Capitalism needs a choke chain.

It is a good system for an economy to adopt, but the checks and balances part failed a long time ago in the USA.

Communism, Capitalism, Socialism - just about any '-ism' taken to the extreme is bad.

Wisdom would seem to infer we should take the best from each of these and move forward with the combination that works best for our times.

Rand was at a time when Communism was taken to the extreme, Capitalism, it was thought, would be the panacea to fix everything.

She'd be writing a different story today, can bet that much....

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Capitalism is fine. Socialism, Communism, do not work, and never have. Due to Centralist control which stifles freedoms, creativity and imagination.









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Rand was at a time when Communism was taken to the extreme, Capitalism, it was thought, would be the panacea to fix everything.
...yup

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