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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…
Competing Governments?
“A recent variant of anarchistic theory, which is befuddling some of the younger advocates of freedom, is a weird absurdity called “competing governments.” Accepting the…
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…
Is family separation at the border a Trump admin Policy?
The media have been quick to blame the Trump administration for parent child separation at the Mexico border. Today however, no self respecting, independent thinking…
What is a rational immigration policy?
What is a rational immigration policy? The government’s proper role in managing immigration is the same as its proper role in any activity. To protect…
Yes you still need consent to copy intellectual property
Libertarians obviously understand the concept and requirement for consent. Until they don’t? There are entire books of excuses written in attempts to justify copying intellectual property…
The best argument for free trade
In time of war, we blockade our enemies in order to prevent them from getting goods from us. In time of peace, we do to…
Trump is wrong on tariffs, they are not a benefit, here is why.
Trump has recently came out in support of trade tariffs on steel. He has also threatened protectionism policies in other industries. Sadly, this type of…
All gun control Myths Debunked
With another tragedy, the media is circulating the same old gun control myths that have been refuted numerous times. Being tired of looking up the…
Look how easy it is to solve pre-exiting conditions issue if government gets out of the way.
In my humble opinion it would be extremely easy to solve the pre-exiting conditions issue without current government regulations chaining the industry hand and…
Blaming things on greed is childish.
You hear people like Bernie Sanders say this all the time. “The problem with America is too much greed. This is one of the most…
Republicans need to be careful voting for Trump just because the left hates him.
I have not taken any polls, or held any focus groups obviously, but I pretty strongly believe that the appeal of Trump has to do…
People are fighting for 15$ minimum wage like they are some sort of hero. In reality, they are hurting exactly the people that need help the most.
Those who are making minimum wage and are advocating for an increase, I can forgive. If they were knowledgeable about economics they probably wouldn’t be…
Only way to have an open and free internet is to keep government’s hands off of it.
I would like to live in a world where I have a choice between an internet provider that has fast…
Either pay for your own college now, or every ones for the rest of your life.
Either pay for your own college now, or every ones for the rest of your life. Obama’s free 2 years of college program suggestion, and…
