Revealed in the "Oral History of Ayn Rand" by the founder of 
the media department at the Ayn Rand Institute: In the end 
Rand was (secretly) one of the parasites she despised. Eva 
Pryor (a consultant to Rand's law firm of Ernst, Cane, Gitlin 
and Winick) verified that on Rand's behalf she secured Social 
Security and Medicare payments which Ayn received 
under the name of Ann O'Connor (husband Frank O'Connor). 
Pryor said, "Doctors cost a lot more money than books earn 
and she could be totally wiped out" without the aid of these 
two government programs. Ayn took the bail out. Throughout 
her life she said it was wrong and weak for everyone else to 
do so..

Ayn Rand is your garden variety sociopath. I find her somewhat fascinating from a psychological standpoint, but also find it unbelievable that anyone would find her ideas or philosophies acceptable in a civil society. Well...unless they are also sociopathic.
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