Tuesday, July 07, 2020

Atlas Grubbed.

Irony
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From Open Culture:

Finally bowing to public pressure, the Trump administration, has revealed which companies received loans from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) created to support small businesses during COVID-19...

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....Add to the list the Ayn Rand Institute--an organization named after Ayn Rand, the Russian writer who exalted the self-reliant individual and criticized social welfare programs that support the vulnerable. As she wrote in The Virtue of Selfishness, “The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.” In short, if you can't make it, you're on your own...



Additionally, it would appear that the latest candidate for the American presidency has taken the same route with his own 'small' business.

Elyna Lyn Gros has that story in Forbes:

On the heels of his announcement that he is running for president, documents reveal that billionaire Kanye West’s fashion company Yeezy received more than $2 million through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) — he owns 100% of the company which Forbes estimates brought in close to $1.3 billion in 2019...


And just who, exactly, would the good Mr. West take voters from if he were to get on the ballot in a decent number of states?



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1 comment:

e.a.f. said...

these programs were set up to improve the bank balances of the rich. West is a perfect e.g. Trump has been "courting" West and his wife for some time. It will take votes from the Democrats and split a lot of organizations which are currently supporting the Democrats and West doesn't care. the man has always been all about himself and I'm sure there are things about him which appeal to Trump such as his erratic behaviour. West's "new religion" is also something to watch out for.

West, in my opinion, is and always has been all about himself.