Reply #3: The entire premise of their worship is false.

[silverweb]

Rand did idealize her industrial giants and attributed to them a rigid moral code that included hard work, persistence, native genius, innovation -- and above all, honesty and integrity. Everything they did was based on what they saw as the sanctity of fair trade and their motto was, "value for value."

Rand's modern devotees ignore the differences between Rand's heroic characters and attribute their virtues to high-level business people in general today -- many of whom, as we all know by now, live by one code and for one purpose only: profit above all else.

Today's heroes of the Libertarian sheep do not care how their profit is obtained, as long as it keeps getting higher and higher, and their methods certainly do not require the ethics and stoic honesty of a Hank Reardon.

The entire argument of Libertarians today is based on the premise that business leaders are honest and that all will be well in the world if we just leave them alone and let them do what they want however they want -- and that is a false premise.