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Entry: The Day I Met Ayn Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_day_i_met_ayn#20482 Post contents: Roark created the design AND thus the building. What he destroyed was the deliberation mutilation and thus theft of his property. Since it was built with stolen tax funds any taxpayer had the right to destroy it, Roark is the one who had the most interest. The whole building arrangement that he made with Peter Keating was absolutely CONDITIONAL on NO alterations being made, the government was thus in violation of the contract which was the legal and moral basis for the project. The workmen were merely there to carry out instructions, they were in no sense owners or creators of that or any other building. And with public property there is no way to divide up allocated portions or no property rights to respect and this is a good reason not to have any public property. If wasn't for people with ideas like Roark or Rearden there would be nothing for labor to do. We would be living in a primitive starvation economy. Adriana, you have totally failed to grasp anything Rand was saying in any of her works. The only rights the workmen had were to be paid and they were. Any equipment on site was stolen by city taxes and thus no property rights to be respected. The buildings were never the product of their labor but of Roark's mind, the paid labor is only the means of carrying out his ideas. Sent at: 2008 05 16