Atlas Shrugged is a piece of junk!

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Gosh.

Generosity to others just might be the rent less self-centred people generally choose to pay as the rent for the room we take up on this planet.

Rand said the idea that people exist to serve others is evil.

Which is Rand's opinion, and nothing more.

I know what Rand said.

http://evonomics.com/what-happens-when- ... ic-theory/

Not exactly a glowing review for Rand's philosophy in action.

It’s NOT her philosophy in action. For Rand, the key to self-interest is RATIONAL self-interest. Any self-interest that fails to empower others cannot be said to be rational. When you can’t look beyond yourself and see how service to others ultimately benefits YOU, your choices to act for yourself are destructive.

The idea that we EXIST to serve others IS evil. That’s altruism. In my previous post I demonstrated how altruism fails and brings out the worst in people. Organized altruism results in socialism. Socialism is a failed system. We KNOW this. Rational individualism or self-interest seeks the good of others because the individual thrives when the community thrives. It understands that others are individuals, too, with their own self-interest. By tapping into that, everyone benefits.

Define the "self".. it has meanings far beyond self-as-ego.

“I.” The individual. Self-interest is, say, individual A looking out for what is best for individual A.