• • • Ayn Rand’s Argument For Capitalism – Part I
Don Watkins, Laissez Faire (Ayn Rand Institute)
Altruism |
Capitalism |
Egoism |
Individualism |
Yaron Brook |
Objectivist author |
Ayn Rand is known and often criticized for her defense of selfishness and capitalism. “Doesn’t she have any concern for the poor?” her interlocutors ask. In “Arthur Brooks and Ayn Rand on the Moral Case for Free Enterprise,” blogger Will Wilkinson raises a novel criticism. Rand, he suggests, was concerned for the poor, or at least recognized the rhetorical value of appealing capitalism’s positive effects on the poor, and this, he claims, was a concession to altruism.