Inequality not growing, median incomes up

[bush_cheney2004]

....This, to me, is more about a corporate culture that valued loyalty and practiced it until a certain point in history. Like the Prisoner's Dilemma game it eventually made no sense for any participant to assume that they could rely on the other players.

Agreed, it has nothing to do with Ayn Rand, and invoking her brand of objectivism is just more silly victimhood and failure to recognize that the social employment contract has changed forever. You're on your own.