Minuce chafis is head of the london school of economics, professional economists. She says everyone shouldbe guaranteed the minimum required to live a decent life. This minimum should include basic health care, education and benefits associated with work. It's morally offensive to take away choice from human beings,. not to let human beings decide what they can or cannot do with their lives.
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.