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

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The America that the show idealized a society in which every man had a job, inequalities of wealth were muted, and people were bound together in a tight community no longer existed, either.

NEWYORKER: Coming Apart

An article published in the February edition of Atlantic Monthly came close to repudiating free markets an odd argument from a man who earned in such markets so much of the wealth he has spread.

ECONOMIST: Giving it away

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

NEWYORKER: Wag the Dog

But it's male-ish to say that only the size of a man's pecs or the shape of woman's rear end can inspire a genuine attraction, whereas obscene wealth always and everywhere inspires only money-grubbing gold-digging.

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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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