Gary wanted to enjoy being a man of wealth and leisure, but the country was making it none too easy.

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Mostly, though, the speech laid out the humdrum economies of a man whose ambitions ran to political advancement, not wealth.

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By celebrating the moral character and competitive accomplishments of entrepreneurs that earn their wealth by providing for the needs of their fellow man through free exchange, Rand lays out a dichotomy that shows why the "greater good" is better served by the selfishness of the latter than the altruism of the former.

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