Ayn Rand on Bureaucrats
“The welfare recipients are not the worst part of the producers’ burden. The worst part are the bureaucrats, the government officials who are given the…
Tag: capitalism
Ayn Rand on Businessmen
Businessmen are the symbol of a free society—the symbol of America. If and when they perish, civilization will perish. But if you wish to fight…
Ayn Rand is man free?
“Is man free? In mankind’s history, capitalism is the only system that answers: Yes.”
Hayek and Mises on Property
“Private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.” -Hayek…
Objectobot Original: Innovation under Socialism vs Capitalism
The image depicts a comic with two panels, portraying a conversation about the number of innovations under capitalism versus socialism: The comic illustrates a dialogue…
Frederic Bastiat on Socialism
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object…
Mises, Worship of the State
“The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or…
Ludwig Von Mises Products of Free Enterprise
“Enjoying all the new products which free enterprise provides, they are tormented by one thought only, that some people have become rich in creating these…
Friedric Hayek Economic control
“To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.”— Friedrich Hayek
Objectobot on Capitalism
“It is astounding hypocrisy that capitalism, the most rapid system of progress and innovation ever created, is condemned for an instance of imperfection, while socialism,…
Bastiat on property rights
“As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose–that it may violate property instead of protecting it–then everyone…
Ayn Rand Root of Production
“Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by…
Ayn Rand, what is freedom?
“But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a…
Ayn Rand the New Ridicals
Let those who do care about the future, those willing to crusade for a perfect society, realize that the new radicals are the fighters for…
Ayn Rand, a right is a moral principle
A “right” is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man’s freedom of action in a social context. There is only one fundamental right, all…
Ayn Rand: Businessman vs Bureaucrat
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss.…
Ayn Rand Proper role of government
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means, to protect him from physical violence. But a government that initiates…
Ayn Rand, Entitlements and Rights
If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights… Any…
Ayn Rand on Truth and Faith
“An error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but…
To oppose war oppose statism
“If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.”
Principle of Individual Rights
“If men are to live together in a peaceful, productive, rational society and deal with oneanother to mutual benefit, they must accept the basic social…
Ayn Rand on Individualists
“Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says:“I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s…
Civilized Society
“The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from socialrelationships, thus establishing the principle that if men wish to deal with…
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 obtain…
Consistency Wins
“When men share the same basic premise, it is the most consistent ones who win. So long as men accept the altruist morality, they will…
Coming Looters
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is theleper’s bell of an approaching looter.”
So long as government holds power over the economy.
“So long as a government holds the power of economic control, it will necessarily create a special elite, an aristocracy of pull, it will attract the…
Futile to fight
“It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. A merely negative trend or movement cannot win and,…
Objectobot Original: Political Spectrum
Political spectrum based on essentials.
Labor vs Capital after thousands of years
Labor was always around, we didn’t have an explosion of wealth and earnings per person until capital was introduced.
Ayn Rand, Know what you are fighting for
“It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. A merely negative trend or movement cannot win and,…
Will Robots take over all our Jobs leading to mass unemployment?
The short answer is no, this is quite literally impossible, and I show why in the below flow chart. Mass automation requires mass consumption, because…
Let’s take another look at the labor theory of value
The labor theory of value is at the cornerstone of every economic scheme hatched by all the different flavors of Marxists. Due to some of…
Child Labor Ended by Capitalism
Child labor existed prior to capitalist societies. In fact, having children was one of the main ways a family would get the labor for their…
On jobs
These tweets are simply ignorant. People don’t take the time to even think one step ahead these days. If jobs exist that don’t pay a…
Ayn Rand on the New Left
The New Left does not portend a revolution, as its press agents claim, but a Putsch. A revolution is the climax of a long philosophical development…
Ayn Rand on Trade
“A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. He does not treat men as masters…
Ayn Rand, More On Emtions
An emotion as such tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something. Without a ruthlessly honest commitment to introspection—to…
Ayn Rand on Capitalism
If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to evade its existence,…
ObjectoBot Original: Any Rand Office Meme
The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
Ayn Rand on Helping
The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not “selflessness” or “sacrifice,” but integrity. Integrity is loyalty to one’s convictions and values, it is…
Ayn Rand on what is Slavery?
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or…
Ayn Rand on What Rights Are
The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully and two hundred years have not…
Ayn Rand on Collectivist losers
The acceleration of collectivism’s advance is not a march of winners, but a blind stampede of losers. Collectivism has lost the battle for min’s minds,…
Yes Elon Musk is a self-made Billionaire.
The facts of Elon Musk’s timeline are fairly simple and widely available. He was born in 1971 in South Africa to a family of modest…
Can minimum wage workers afford a two-bedroom apartment?
As it turns out, yes they actually can, in every state. If you look at whether there is a 2 bedroom apartment within the price…
How to and how not to defend Capitalism
This is a new series I am employing and calling it objectivism through flow charts. We are going to take a look at the below…
Philosophy of Star Trek
Movies and TV shows if not explicitly then implicitly usually expound some sort of philosophies. These philosophies if not consciously then subconsciously are picked up…
The Lefts Voodoo Economics on the Minimum Wage.
Rep. Ilhan Omar and many other left-leaning think tanks and operatives are repeating the talking point that 27 million workers would receive a wage raise…
Ayn Rand on people embracing collectivism
“People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted badeconomics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embracedcollectivism. “You cannot reverse cause and effect. And you cannot destroy the causeby…
The Scam of that wasn’t real Communism
Most libertarians or other freedom advocates, when pointing out the failures of nations that have attempted communism and socialism are very aware of the phrase…
Walter Williams on Capitalism
“Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy…
Social distance warriors, are you absolutely sure you are saving lives and not ending them?
You may have noticed a shift in the narrative of social distancing from flattening the curve, to social distancing to save lives. Social distance warriors…
Ayn Rand, no Compromise between Freedom and Control
There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept “just a few controls” is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights…
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…
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, 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……
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 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.
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…
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 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 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 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…
ObjectoBot Original: How minimum wage works
How minimum wage works, updated for inflation lol. This was the original.
How good is government at solving problems really?
You have probably seen these graphs sometime before, well here they are again, in one place. America is doing poorly at educating our kids. So…
Surest way to lose the moral argument for capitalism, is to say its for the sake of the poor.
“The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.”― Frédéric Bastiat That is…
Full Employment but Nothing to Eat
Updated 9/14/2012. The bellow is now happening. But it is even worse than we thought. The Fed announced that they will be buying 40 billion…
Judge Napolitano vs Jon Stewart
Untitled from objectobot on Vimeo. There is a few objective issues out there in the world, and by objective I mean that the truth is…
Libertarian’s appeasement of progressive’s attack on selfishness is a losing tactic
An article on reason.com, this one, tries to deflect progressive attacks on libertarianism. It explains why libertarianism is not equal to selfishness, and that critics…
Obama vs Reality
Obama: Capitalism is a theory that never worked. Reality: America which has existed for roughly 220 years has been built into a super economic power…