What's Maps Got to Do with It?

"Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done not by consent, but by compulsion--when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing--when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors--when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you--when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice--you may know that your society is doomed."
--Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"

I don't see what any of this has to do with maps, or food, or for that matter anything meaningful going on nowadays, but there it is.