Ayn Rand, on explaining
” The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. “
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Ayn Rand on Lobbies and Pressure Groups
“So long as a concept such as “the public interest” (or the “social” or “national” or “international” interest) is regarded as a valid principle to…
Ayn Rand, When a Society is Doomed
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to…
Ayn Rand on Liberals and Conservatives
” The “liberals” are constantly asserting that they represent the future, that they are “new,” “progressive,” “forward-looking,” etc.—and they denounce the “conservatives” as old-fashioned representatives…
The world you desire can be won
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not…
Ayn Rand on Collectivism
“Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.”
Ayn Rand, Government power to crack down on criminals
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t…
Ayn Rand on Chrismas
“The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”—not “Weep…
Ayn Rand, America’s Abundance
“America’s abundance was created… by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes……
Money is the root of evil?
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. “
Ayn Rand, why people embrace collectivism
“People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.”
Ayn Rand on Socialism
“Instead of prosperity, socialism has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it. The degree of socialization has been the degree of…
Ayn Rand on Feminists
Ayn Rand makes funny joke at the expense of modern feminists.
Ayn Rand on Expropriation of Wealth
“If all the wealth spent on personal consumption by all the rich of the United States were expropriated and distributed among our population, it would…
Ayn Rand on Poverty
If concern with poverty and human suffering were the collectivists’ motive, they would have become champions of capitalism long ago.
Dependence breeds hatred
Dependence breeds hatred. Only free men can afford to be benevolent. Only free men can love and respect one another.
The greatest good
“The greatest good for the greatest number is one of the most vicious slogans ever foisted on humanity.”
The source of Rights
“The source of man’s rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___ and man is…
Who are the Job creators?
Coronavirus quarantines seemed to have some people questioning who are the job creators. If consumers and workers are staying home, and not frequenting businesses, and…
Ayn Rand, Money is the barometer of Society’s Virtue
“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 corruption…
Ayn Rand on Public Property
“Since “public property” is a collectivist fiction, since the public as a whole can neither use nor dispose of its “property,” that “property” will always be taken over by some political…
Ayn Rand Poverty and Abundance
“If concern for human poverty and suffering were one’s primary motive, one would seek to discover their cause. One would not fail to ask: Why…
Ayn Rand on Individual Rights
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from…
Pandemics in a free society
This is a friendly criticism of Trump’s response to Corona virus and an overall look of how a pandemic would be handled in a free…
John Galt Speech
“You called it selfish and cruel that men should trade value for value – you have now established an unselfish society where they trade extortion…
Ayn Rand on America
“America did not melt men into the gray conformity of a collective: she united them by means of protecting their right to individuality.”
Ayn Rand on the Common Good
“The common good of a collective, a race, a class, a state, was the claim and justification of every tyranny ever established over men.”
Ayn Rand on America
” I can say—not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political and esthetic roots—that the United States…
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose…
Ayn Rand the purpose of Morality
“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”
Ayn Rand Capitalism the Unknown Ideal
“Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the…
ObjectoBot Original: Income Per Person
Capitalism, funding all other isms.
Ayn Rand on Civilization and Privacy
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the…
Ayn Rand on Capitalism and Greed
“Capitalism has been called a system of greed, yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights…
Ayn Rand on Fallacies of Socialism
“The fallacies and contradictions in the economic theories of socialism were exposed and refuted time and time again, in the Nineteenth Century as well as…
Ayn Rand on Declaration of Independence
“If it is every proper for men to kneel, we should kneel when we read the Declaration of Independence, the greatest document in human history.”
Ayn Rand on Fascism vs Communism
“It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the…
Ayn Rand on Work
“What you owe yourself is to work for your living: what you owe your neighbor is not to interfere with his work.”
Ayn Rand on Free Society
“If a society is to be free, its government must be controlled.”
Ayn Rand, Difference between political and other types of power
From Capitalism the Unknown Ideal. “The difference between political power and any other kind of social power, between government and any private organization, is the…
Ayn Rand, Existence exists
“Existence exists-and the act of grasping that statement implies two corollary axioms: That something exists which one perceives and that one exists possessing consciousness, consciousness…
Ayn Rand on Communist’s intentions
“It is the Communists’ intention to make people think that personal success is somehow achieved at the expense of others and that every successful man…
Ayn Rand on the theory of value
Ayn Rand eloquently explains where economic value comes from. “The economic value of a man’s work is determined, on a free market, by a single…
Why solar and wind can’t save the planet
The video at the end is of a TED talk, I recommend you watch it for your self, but the point of this piece is…
When someone says that healthcare is a right.
Bernie Sanders, for instance, says this all the time. “The U.S. is the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee healthcare for all as…
Why is AOC touting Marx’s defunct Labor Theory of Value?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said “No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.” When asked to elaborate she explained that billionaires do…
Part-time workers counted as low wage workers in a new report.
As the title so simply explains, a new report claiming that half of all Americans work low wage jobs fails to disclose that when defining…
Amazon will pay no Taxes Fake News Debunked.
According to an already highly deceptive report by Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Amazon will pay no federal income tax on its 11.2 billion…
No, productivity is not divergent from income.
You may have seen the below chart arguing that worker productivity has increased, but their compensation has not kept up. However, after looking closer into…
Debunking CEO pay myths.
New headline from Economic Policy institute “CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978 while typical worker compensation has risen only 12% during that time,” stinks…
Is insurance a form of socialism?
The claim goes something like this. Since private health insurance is paid into collectively, it is a form of socialism, and therefore conservatives/capitalists already support…
ObjectoBot Original: How minimum wage works
How minimum wage works, updated for inflation lol. This was the original.
It’s ridiculous to complain about the income inequality that emerges from free, voluntary transactions.
A man who catches 1000 fish can feed more people than a man who catches 10. Even if the man who caught 1000 fish exerted…
Amazon raising starting salary to 15$ per hour only helps those whose productivity justifies that wage.
Amazon just committed to raising the starting salary for all employees to 15$ per hour. What is the economic impact of that decision? The answer…