Yaron Lectures: Free Market Revolution Book Tour - Shanghai
Yaron Brook Show
00:00
The Morality of Selflessness
We believe as a culture that lying stealing a cheat is inherent in the activity of business. We assign a bureaucrat who is not self-interested, right? What's the interest of the bureaucrat? He's there to take care of all of us. So we trust him. Because again, it's consistent with our ethics. Our ethics causes us to trust the public servant and to be suspicious of the businessman. But this is not what Ayn Rand is saying, this is not Ayn Rand's idea of selfing. She's saying no self-interest constitutes a set of clear virtues which lead to success. The principles that work in the long run, not just in the short
Transcript
Play full episode
