You Didn't Build That on the Public Roads

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i don't think i have extraordinarily high e cue im. I know a lot of people smarter than be more successful, but what determines that? What determines that is what you do with the material you ware givin. Ye, you mentioned earlier about, you know, you built this corporation, and then the state wants to take it away from you then. So how do you counter the argument? Well, you didn't really do that. You know, luck has a big chance. Not everybody's born with that,. all the way down to the stuff abama talked about with his you didn't build that on the public roads. Gogle and apple both benefit from all that state

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.