>>Look, if I ever made millions of dollars, I'd certain leave a good amount to my family to make sure they would do OK, and I'd give the rest to charity.
Just remember what Francisco had to say on this, despite being the scion of a wealthy copper family: "none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d’Anconia. We are expected to become one."
He also said "Do not envy a worthless heir; his wealth is not yours and you would have done no better with it. Do not think that it should have been distributed among you; loading the world with fifty parasites instead of one, would not bring back the dead virtue which was the fortune."
There you go- a quotation-fest for whichever side people want Rand to support. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
