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Ayn Rand as a Ferengi

by: Andrew Toskin

Publication date: 2014-09-14

Usage: Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

Topics: Ayn Rand, Ferengi, Star Trek, Rules of Acquisition, greed, capitalism

Language: English

Rights

copyleft 2014. This work is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Meaning basically that you’re free to copy, share, and remix this work, for any purpose, as long as you credit me as the source and “share alike.” Reposts and remixes of this work should attribute Niccolo Florence, and link to curefornightmares.com

Works I borrowed

portrait of Ayn Rand (photographer unknown; if you recognize the portrait, let me know who did it!)
still of Quark, a character in Star Trek, by Gene Roddenberry

a digital painting by Andrew Toskin, working as Niccolo Florence

Hm, let’s see. Are there any Star Trek fans here who like (making fun of) Objectivism?

Captions:
The Rules of Acquisition, by Ayn Rand.

Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.

Have you got the lobes to call altruism evil?

Greed is eternal.

A Ferengi without profit is no Ferengi at all.

Notes

Images were drawn and composited in Krita (hence the .kra files). But you can also get the work, with all the layers preserved, as a Photoshop file (.psd) or as an Open Raster Archive (.ora). .jpg images are compressed at 90% quality; "sd," "hd," and "uhd" indicate which display resolution the image was resized for. .png is a lossless format, though, and so is probably the better choice if you wanted to reuse or remix the flattened images.