Written in 1957 and as real as ever

Today.

"When you see that to produce you need to ask permission from those who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing into the hands of merchants, not of goods but of favors - When you see men become richer by bribery and by inducement than by works, and your laws protect you not against them but against them when you see corruption rewarded and honesty become into self-sacrifice - You can know that your society is doomed." -

Ayn Rand, Atlas Vai, 1957