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Episode 133: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: Ayn Rand

Our Opinions Are Correct

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The Power of Individualism

I think what a lot of these Silicon Valley people are responding to in Rand's work is this individualism, this glorification of entrepreneurship. How much we who think that Rand was on to something try to take on from her and how much should we discard? I don't think there's any really easy answers to those questions. But the wealth is such an important point that she deserves a place in the canon just for that, if nothing else.

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