Yaron Brook was quoted several times in an article by John Stossel for the New York Post, a decidedly conservative (in the bad sense) tabloid.
Sen. Josh Hawley attacks airline CEOs for charging different people different prices. “You make it clear,” he sneered. “Money is your bottom line.”
Well, yes, Senator. That’s the CEO’s job.
Sadly, big shots trained as lawyers rarely understand the principles that make capitalism work so well.
“The only way you can make money in business is by providing customers with value!” says Yaron Brook, head of the Ayn Rand Institute.
“The biggest problem we have in our culture is this perception that when you pursue your own self-interest, you are somehow a villain . . . it’s why socialism is still viewed as morally noble, capitalism as evil and bad.”
Ayn Rand was a philosopher who understood that others get richer because entrepreneurs pursue profit. Intellectuals hate her for saying that.
Rand’s books sold millions of copies, but the media trash her.
HBO’s John Oliver joked, “Ayn Rand became famous for her philosophy of Objectivism, which is a nice way of saying, being a selfish a–hole.”
“Being selfish is not the same as being an a–hole,” responds Brook.
It’s just following “your rational, long term, self-interest . . . Her philosophy is smeared because it goes against 2,000 years of philosophy that tells us that the purpose of life and morality is to suffer and sacrifice.”
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