iesti: The closer you get to capitalism, the richer you become. iesti: Not every social socialist country at the beginning has death and destruction but it has. Iesti: Who came from europe and from other parts of the world? The poorest people,. they were not noble prize winners in physics. These were farmers from little villages in eastern europe. They came to america; nobody promised them anything. Nobody gave them anything. And so did the irish, and so did the italians, and soDid the scots, and so Did the english.
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.