Brent says:

It is grimly humorous to me the mental gymnastics people go through to deny the logic behind Rand’s message. You cry “SLAVERY, EVIL BANKERS,” and so on, but you’re just regurgitating popular words and phrases you’ve heard elsewhere. I won’t waste my time addressing all of these, but the slavery and evil bankers arguments perturb me the most:

SLAVERY!: Slavery is force, smart guy. Force is ILLEGAL, and would remain so without a strangled economic system. The same goes with any similar argument.

EVIL BANKERS!: Banks couldn’t destroy your money’s value if your money had REAL VALUE. The fact that your money’s value is dependent on the amount of money that the Fed decides to print and the amount that is created through bogus, and largely unpaid, loans could be quickly rectified by having money that is backed by silver or gold. Then, the “evil bankers” and the idiots who fall for bad loans could go on doing whatever they please and it would not effect you in any way.