We the Living: 60th Anniversary Edition by Ayn RandExcellent so far (just started it again); I'll be posting some quotes right here.
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"I'll tell you, Galina," Maria Petrovna hurried and coughed, choked, and went on, "I'll tell you the best thing to do: Alexander must take a job."
Galina Petrovna sat up straight, as if she had been slapped in the face. "A Soviet job?"
"Well...all jobs are Soviet jobs."
"Not as long as I live," Alexander Dimitrievitch stated with unexpected strength.
Vassili Ivanovitch dropped his spoon and it clattered into his plate; silently, solemnly, he stretched his big fist across the table and shook Alexander Dimittrievitch's hand and threw a dark glance at Maria Petrovna. She cringed, swallowed a spoonful of millet, coughed.
"I'm not saying anything about you, Vasili," she protested timidly. "I know you don't approve and...well, never will...But I was thinking they get bread cards, and lard, and sugar, the Soviet employees do--sometimes."
"When I have to take Soviet employment," said Vasili Ivanovitch, "you'll be a widow, Marussia."
"I'm not saying anything, Vasili, only..."
[Unquote.]
We here in America are extremely pragmatic, (and maybe used to being slaves) so we don't even think twice--gotta keep the income coming in--we work for the few corporations or government agencies that have the last few good paying jobs or we earn wages not worth the paper its printed on in the private sector.
Is it a sin to work for the system until you have enough capital to have more choices?
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