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My favorite part of Atlas Shrugged (which is a dogshit book not worth reading) is when the capitalist good guy steel magnate has to have a full-ass monologue explaining why buying a fancy necklace for the woman he's involved with is actually selfish, actually, and isn't him being magnanimous and giving someone a gift.
Ayn Rand has so many brainworms that giving a gift to a person you love has to come with a monologue about how it isn't actually a gift. Which feels to me like the other side of the "only property crimes are real crimes" brainworm