Yaron Brook on Capitalism, Question 8 - Ayn Rand Institute

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You cite the faults of socialized healthcare, but aren't these problems also true of free market healthcare? This question is from the Q-&-A period of a lecture titled "Why Unregulated (Laissez-Faire) Capitalism Is the Only Moral Social System," delivered at the University of California, Irvine on April 14, 2008.

Yaron Brook is president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, California.

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[soitoldhimno]

Hooray for Dr. Brook!

This girl should read Atlas Shrugged to see the difference between the aristrocacy of ability and the aristocracy of pull.

[shovelcharge]

Yaron is my hero!

[ToxicMayo9]

So how much money you have determines your worth as a person? This is kind of fucked up

[globbo100]

@grovesend: You are clearly a by-product of our public education system. In a stateless society, you would probably be so busy running your own business, that the very idea that there exist people who actually think that the more successful you are, the less you do, would appall you.

[UltraTexan]

And the guy who makes 50K probably wouldn't have a job if it wasn't for the industrialist who makes 5 million.

[carcabe]

"Capitalism" is simply freedom. It was Marx's perjorative term. Freedom(including free markets) will not give us the perfect world just the best possible world.

[sweetmpea5]

grovesend. you are a socialist. who is the more stupid person. the person who settles for working 40 hours a week for 50,000 dollars a year? or the person who strives for the highest, goes to school and kisses ass and ends up working 20 hours a week making 5 million a year?

there are reasons why certain people make more money than other people. dumbshit.

[grovesend]

What's amazing is that these people actually believe what they are saying. Someone who makes $50,000 a year can be just as productive as someone who makes $5,000,000. Probably more so, since the higher people go in a corporation and the more money they make the less they do. They go on brainstorming retreats and play golf.

[SatanicCod]

I have to agree, EVEN if I am a Canadian...