Why Ayn Rand Is Wrong (and Why It Matters)

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This doesn't say why, it's just a big post to get you to buy his book.

The problem isn't her philosophy. The problem is that Objectivism attracts the worst kind of people: the self-deluded sociopaths who suffer from massive cognitive dissonance and really think they are better than the rest of the human race and all the success they have accrued are due to their own personal merit.

I believed Warren Buffet described this succintly many years ago when he said his massive success was also very much dependent on him being born in America rather than say, Bangladesh, and that modern capitalist society overvalued his work, while undervaluing the work of say, teachers and firemen.