Contra Ayn Rand - Edit3

[dukealien]

@Thunderembargo - thanks for the compliments and suggestions (I will take the latter under advisement for now).  You may have a better understanding of the poem than I do   .

Though I used Ayn Rand as a foil, my disrespect for her work is not as great as yours seems to be.  She did try to construct a philosophy which was internally consistent and addressed the problems of (crony) capitalism in both its declared territories and those (under fascism, communism, totalitarianism generally) where it was ruthlessly and even more corruptly practiced while it was outwardly disparaged - Red China today is the salient current example of that contradiction.  Rand's philosophy is reasonably consistent with the gig economy, but not the sharing economy which is outwardly consistent with altruism.  I stopped short of the thought that launching paper boats and balloons may intend others' delight.