Introduction

Inrand was one of the twentieth century's leading defenders of lesefer capitalism. She openly and unapologetically opposed the welfare state. Her reasons for rejecting the welfare state were radically different from those offered by most conventional critics of welfare. The primary victim of the welfare state, in this view, is every person whose production is penalized. In opposing the sacrifice of more productive to the less rand opposed the altruistic ethic that equates sacrifice with virtue.