What happens when the producers are taxed out of town and only the moochers are left
It seems the Peoples Republic of Detroit is cutting off the water of moochers who don't pay their bills. I won’t go in to a discussion of just what the hue and cry would be if a Republican administration had done just such a thing. [You all know how it would go, 24 X 7 on all channels about those racist Republicans!] It is instructive to read the workarounds the lady in the story has to use in dealing with the water being cut off. [note nowhere in the story does it that she is no doubt still getting sewer service for free as that is typically linked to the water bill] Her story sounds just like it was lifted out of Atlas Shrugged
and the right to enslave as many individuals as it takes to service this right is a right,
then a left is also a right.
“a person who creates economic value, or produces goods and services.”
An Objectivist definition:
“the producer lives by his own effort and does not give or receive the undeserved, who honors achievement and rejects envy.”
That means that each individual (even if they are an employee or employer) may not may not qualify.
Really? That's Interesting. Where are you noticing this? I like to think I've been paying pretty close attention for the past 20 or so years since I first read Atlas and... well... I've never once heard such a thing from any Objectivist I've ever come across or read.
I mean... I've heard this type of the thing as an attack from the left more than once but, seeing as how it bears no resemblance to reality, I can't imagine you've heard this from anyone in our camp. Citation?
In Atlas Shrugged,
James Taggart was an employer. Was he a producer?
Owen Kellogg, was an employee. Was he a producer?
Check your premises.