The New Age Moneychangers
The new-age moneychangers of America’s corporate and financial
centers sit in glass cubicles 24/7 pondering the economic and financial
gravity of all things. The things they look at are only good if they sell
they have no worth if they don’t, and the only merit they have is when they
show up as a profit on a balance sheet. They suffer no remorse of conscience
when they cook the books – it’s done, they say, for the common good.
Their understanding of distributary justice is based on the concept
that greed is good as taught by Ayn Rand in her books The Fountainhead
and Atlas Shrugged. This is a concept they often share with compliant
politicians in order to make sure that the nation’s wealth ends up in the
hands of the wealthy, rather than in the hands of the people who
who create the wealth and are not as smart and greedy as themselves.