If you cut out the Ayn Rand qualifier from that statement, you're left with "just blatant horseshit". While that is an emotional statement, the core of the absurdity is already revealed in the preceding paragraph. In essence he's already made a substantive argument, is your complaint that you're not following? You find the situation described normal? Perhaps you are not convinced that is what was originally described, and instead it needs to be read with more nuance?