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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: How Capitalists Are Exploited
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer, Robertas Bakula, and Tristan de Liège explore how the mixed economy enables the unjust exploitation of society’s most productive individuals.
Among the topics covered:
Why, contrary to Marxist claims, businesspeople are the most exploited group in a mixed economy;
How antitrust laws enable the government and less successful companies to exploit successful companies;
How tariffs drive the material and spiritual exploitation of producers;
How farm subsidies reward stagnation at the taxpayers' expense;
How Atlas Shrugged dramatizes the exploitation of producers.
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