The Ayan Rand Institute: ‘We Took PPP Funds and Would Do It Again’

Counterargument: If you believe that a system is immoral, its better to minimize your participation in that system, even if you're coerced to participate to a certain degree.

Having read their statement on taking the aid (https://newideal.aynrand.org/to-take-or-not-to-take/) their argument boils down to:

"we would be foolish not apply for and take a government handout and that it is OK for us to do so as we are pro-capitalists but bad for everyone else to do so."

Rand's personal argument for this behavior and why she took government handouts including social security and medicare was:

"Those who support such government handouts, have no right to them; those who oppose them have"

I personally find the hypocrisy of this stunning.