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Comments by "D Mc" (@dmc8092) on "American Capitalist Party & Classical Liberalism (Pt. 1) | Mark Pellegrino | POLITICS | Rubin Report" video.
My criticism of Ayn Rand is that it's naive. The idea that people will act with rational self interest is just naive. People will do what's good for them without regard to whether it's good for the community.
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I went to public schools and was never taught that capitalism is bad. What "state run schools" is he talking about?
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m0ZZaik Which is why I don't think it can work.
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m0ZZaik misspoke
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m0ZZaik I misspoke, I meant Objectivism.
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m0ZZaik Because it means that for it to work people have to act rationally. The idea that all it means is that people can be and are irrational isn't actually the problem with the philosophy, it's that for Libertarianism to work people have to be rational--and they're not.
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fab006 Which seems pretty obvious so I don't know why people find it revolutionary--except that I haven't seen her followers react that way either.
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fab006 The entanglement between objectivism and capitalism just won't work. The aim of capitalism is to make money and the idea that capitalists will act rationally rather than just out of immediate gratification is not supported by history.
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