Only Animal Farm's ruling class pigs do not live under the yoke of socialism.

Sometimes dinos do things on a whim. Or for the hell of it.

Absolutely. But there's always a troll or two.

allosaur, no matter how different the personalities on Galt's Gulch Online are, they should ALL be in tune with the Individual over the Collective. Agree?

"...the best investment one can make in terms of return and the resulting control..."

You're getting very close. "When the holders of property and the holders of knowledge, either scientific or religious, ally with government, then power is concentrated and freedom vanishes". That means that the "countervailing powers" necessary for limits to state power have been eliminated.

Is it only black-owned businesses that are of concern to you?

Yes, it is what I'm getting at. "Government largesse and abuse of power" is a consequence of the victory of the collective. In fact, to take this further, as I have elsewhere, the "military-industrial complex", first spoken of by Keynes, is more likely, and perhaps "only" to occur under strong central governnments, or when power is concentrated, as happens in socialist/Marxist economies.

Your last sentence: "But the government isn't always "the collective" could be enlarged upon. What do you consider "the government" to be, and do you suppose "the government" is changing and being changed by "the collective"?

I'm saying for those producers who I suspect are "lurking" within the ranks of the Left, socialism isn't for them: socialism is for the rest of us poor slobs. And/or communism, depending on what the definition de jour is.
You know, the wealthiest capitalist in the world (formerly) George Soros, wants the rest of us to live under his imposed Socialism.

There is nothing truly random in the universe (we just don't fully understand or are able to denote cause-and-effect, yet), except apparently for your "popping me points up and down".

Not all producers, such as Mike Tindall of My Pillow, care for socialism.
On the other hand, me dino quit drinking my favorite soft drink, Coke Zero, when Coca Cola gave a large donation to BLM that's run by admitted Marxists responsible for the looting and burning of black-owned businesses.

Welcome to The Gulch. Someone hates it when me dino posts a Babylon Bee while others seem to really like it.
I'm initially popping you points up and down just to show there's different personalities here.
Like I said, welcome to The Gulch.

Government largesse and abuse of power is the most significant problem, IMO. Nothing has a death toll anywhere near that, for starters. Not to mention the fact that giving money to the government is, by far, the best investment one can make in terms of return and the resulting control (good or bad) one can acquire that way. Maybe this is what you're getting at(?) But, the government isn't always "the collective".

Why is this thread downvoted? If someone doesn't like it, tell me why, please.

I would argue that what Rand never realized, or perhaps could not foresee, is that instead of striking, the producers have allied with the proponents of the collective.
The once wealthiest capitalist in the world, George Soros, would have the rest of us living our lives under Socialism.