Inrand and Atlas Shrugged

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Inrand was an imigrant from an oppressed minority jews. She created strong, independent women that ran major corporations in the united states and had successful professional careers. Andi: It almost seems like all those things are trumped by her politics, or her, i guess laysa fair economics. But i think more fundamentally, it's trompe by her views of ethics, her views of morality. Inrand is most revolutionary where she upsets the status qo the most.

Michael Shermer speaks with entrepreneur, writer, and activist Yaron Brook about Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Objectivism; individualism vs. collectivism; the nature of human nature; altruism, cooperation, reparations, and charity; the starting point of morality and the foundation of ethics; collective action problems and how they are best solved; our moral obligation to help those who cannot help themselves; the Is-Ought problem of determining right and wrong; reason and empiricism; immigration, abortion, foreign wars, the welfare state, and terrorism.