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October 17, 2010

Bar Stool Economics

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
 
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.

October 17, 2010

Ayn Rand: Fountainhead

You will never be more than a dilettante of the intellect, unless you submerge yourself in some cause greater than youself.

Every lonliness is a pinnacle

Religion breeds selfishness. It preaches nothing but a single concern; the salvation of one's own soul.

To achieve absolute virtue one must be willing to take the foulest crimes upon his soul for the sake of his brothers.

Integrity.  The ability to stand by an idea.

Collectivism = selflessness. No motive and no virtue = kill individualism and mans soul.

October 17, 2010

Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged

Basic Philosophy:  the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Happiness is a state of non-Contradictory joy- a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer.

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