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Peter Thiel challenges Alex Epstein on Fossil Future

Power Hour with Alex Epstein

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The Power of Sacrifice in Fountainhead

There's this view of like the person who calls for sacrifice wants to be the master I wish there was an impulse toward that as well. Where do these you like oh you're saying we should all sacrifice oh we should all Sacrifice to you they made that assumption that that'sYeah it's somehow I don't I don't think you ever have a sacrificial logic in which it's truly a egalitarian and where everybody gets sacrificed equally. Yet in practice there's alwaysyou know some Machiavellian power dynamicSome people say Ayn Rand made Ellsworth artificially self-aware in the book so he says explicitly like he's hopefully just a ruin it for people but does it is he really even

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