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Ayn Rand on Collectivism
“Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group … and that the group may sacrifice him…
Entrepreneur vs Politician
“Right now, somewhere an entrepreneur is dreaming up a product to make your life better. Also, right now somewhere a politician is thinking up regulation…
Hayek Free Market
“The advantage of a free market is that it allows millions of decision-makers to respond individually to freely determined prices, allocating resources — labor, capital…
Thatcher Marxism
“MARXISTS GET UP EARLY IN THE MORNING TO FURTHER THEIR CAUSE. WE MUST GET UP EVEN EARLIER TO DEFEND OUR FREEDOM.” – MARGARET THATCHER –
Milei Invite
“We have come here today to invite the Western world to get back on the path to prosperity. ECONOMIC FREEDOM, LIMITED GOVERNMENT AND UNLIMITED RESPECT…
Thomas Sowell Defending Civilization
“IF YOU ARE NOT PREPARED TO USE FORCE TO DEFEND CIVILIZATION THEN BE PREPARED TO ACCEPT BARBARISM” THOMAS SOWELL Knowledge and Decisions (Hoover Institution Press,…
Thomas Sowell on School Vouchers
“People who oppose school vouchers say that we should improve the public schools instead–but they never specify any time limit. Are we to continue through…
Ayn Rand Penguin
THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES THERE WERE MEN WHO TOOK FIRST STEPS DOWN NEW ROADS ARMED WITH NOTHING BUT THEIR OWN VISION. THEIR GOALS DIFFERED, BUT THEY…
Ayn Rand Civilized Society
THE PRECONDITION OF A CIVILIZED SOCIETY IS THE BARRING OF PHYSICAL FORCE FROM SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS THAT IF MEN WISH TO DEAL WITH ONE ANOTHER, THEY…
Ayn Rand Socialism is not a movement of the people.
“SOCIALISM IS NOT A MOVEMENT OF THE PEOPLE.IT IS A MOVEMENT OF THE INTELLECTUALS, ORIGINATED, LED AND CONTROLLED BY THE INTELLECTUALS, CARRIED BY THEM OUT…
Ayn Rand on Wealth redistribution
“WHOEVER CLAIMS THE RIGHT TO REDISTRIBUTE THE WEALTH PRODUCED BY OTHERS IS CLAIMING THE RIGHT TO TREAT HUMAN BEINGS AS CHATTEL.”– AYN RAND
Ayn Rand Ideas Matter
There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire; some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their…
Ayn Rand on Collectivism
“The world conflict of today is the same conflict that has been fought throughout mankind’s history. The names change, but the essence and the results…
Rand and Huxley
Reality cannot be ignored or evaded except at at price.
Written in 1957 and truer than ever today.
“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing,When you see that money is flowing to…
Ayn Rand Initiation of Force
“So long as men believe that the initiation of physical force by some men against others is a proper part of an organized society, hatred,…
Ayn Rand Moral Law
“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.” — Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand Fascist Trend
“I have stated repeatedly that the trend in this country is toward a fascist system with communist slogans. Neither business nor labor nor anyone else,…
Ayn Rand on Free Speech
“The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the…
Ayn Rand on Pity
PITY FORTHE GUILTYIS TREASONTO THEINNOCENT AYN RAND
Objectobot on Capitalism vs Socialism
“It is astounding hypocrisy that capitalism, the most rapid system of progress and innovation ever created, is condemned for an instance of imperfection, while socialism,…
PJ O Rourke
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” — P. J. O’Rourke
MARGARET THATCHER on the State
The most debilitating myth was that the state can perpetually provide a higher standard of living regardless of individual effort. It can’t and it never…
Thomas Sowell on Replacing what works
‘MUCH OF THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE WESTERN WORLD OVER THE PAST THREE DECADES HAS INVOLVED REPLACING WHAT WORKED, WITH WHAT SOUNDED GOOD.’
Bastiat Simpsons, Natural tendencies
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the…
Thomas Sowell Study History
One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and…
Adam Smith Invisible Hand
“Every individual… neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it… By directing that industry in such a manner…
Antony Davies Job Creation
GOVERNMENTDOESN’TCREATE JOBS.IT MOVES JOBSOUT OF AREASWHERE IT TAXESAND INTO AREASWHERE IT SPENDSTHE TAX MONEY. ENTREPRENEURSCREATE JOBS.AND THE WAY TOHELP THEM DOTHAT IS TO GETOUT OF…
Mises on Economic History
ECONOMIC HISTORY IS A LONG RECORD OF GOVERNMENT POLICIES THAT FAILED BECAUSE THEY WERE DESIGNED WITH A BOLD DISREGARD FOR THE LAWS OF ECONOMICS.”— LUDWIG…
Thomas Sowell on Gov of the Left
“No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has.Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left…
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Objectobot originals
Hayek on Socialists
IF SOCIALISTS UNDERSTOOD ECONOMICS THEY WOULDN’T BE SOCIALISTS.— FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK
Ronal Reagan on Government Help
THE NINE MOST TERRIFYINGWORDS IN THE ENGLISHLANGUAGE ARE: I’M FROMTHE GOVERNMENT, ANDI’M HERE TO HELP.” RONALD REAGAN
Hayek on Fascism
“Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.”—HayekRoad to SerfdomQuoting Peter Drucker
Milei – Deficits – Money Printing – Regulation
Argentina has suffered from an overdose of deficits, money printing and useless regulations. All that needs to go. – Javier Milei
Lisa on solving problems
Problems in capitalism make it slightly unstable, solved with market corrections. Problems in communism make it unworkable, solved by reintroducing capitalism.
Thomas Sowell on Micro Aggression
“The concept of ‘micro-aggression’ is just one of many tactics used to stifle differences of opinion by declaring some opinions to be ‘hate speech,’ instead…
Thomas Sowell on Truth
Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true, but many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly and repetition has…
Thomas Sowell on Exploitation
IF THE WEALTH OF RICH CAPITALISTS COMES FROM EXPLOITATION OF POOR WORKERS, THEN WE MIGHT EXPECT TO FIND THAT WHERE THERE ARE CONCENTRATIONS OF RICH…
Asimov Self Education
SELF-EDUCATION is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that,…
Milei Fight for Freedom
“If you don’t fight for your freedom, they will drag you into misery… don’t surrender.” — Javier Milei
Thomas Sowell on Compasion
“Although the big word on the left is ‘compassion,’ the big agenda on the left is dependency. The more people who are dependent on government…
Milton Friedman Government Spending
“Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending. Because that’s the true tax. There is no such thing…
Mises on Bureaucrats
ONLY TO BUREAUCRATS CAN THE IDEA OCCUR THAT ESTABLISHING NEW OFFICES, PROMULGATING NEW DECREES, AND INCREASING THE NUMBER OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES ALONE CAN BE DESCRIBED…
Mises the choice between socialism and capitalism
A MAN WHO CHOOSES BETWEEN DRINKING A GLASS OF MILK AND A GLASS OF A SOLUTION OF POTASSIUM CYANIDE DOES NOT CHOOSE BETWEEN TWO BEVERAGES;…
Milton Friedman Bureaucratic System
In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work. MILTON FLEXMAN
Thomas Sowell 3 Questions
“I’ve often said there are three questions that would destroy most of the arguments on the left. The first is ‘compared to what?’ The second…
Henry Hazlitt Redistribution of Wealth
“Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.”— HENRY HAZLITT
Objectobot, Socialism is not too Good for Human Nature, it does not work in theory.
No socialism does not work in theory, and socialism isn’t too good for human nature, its horrendous on both fronts. It’s ironic that capitalists repeat…
Milei on the Political Class
DON’T YIELD TO A POLITICAL CLASS THAT ONLY WANTS TO PROLONG ITS POWER AND PRESERVE ITS PRIVILEGES— JAVIER MILEI
Mises on Market Economy
WHEREVER THE MARKET ECONOMY IS SUPERSEDED BY SOCIALISM, AUTOCRACY MAKES A COMEBACK.LUDWIG VON MISES
John Locke on Society
Civil society begins when men agree to protect each other’s rights.JOHN LOCKE
Milei Freest Country in the World
I WILL NOT STOP UNTIL I MAKE ARGENTINA THE FREEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD HEAVIER MILEI
Milton Friedman Government Intervention
“There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals…
Thomas Sowell on Envy
Envy used to be one of the seven deadly sins. But now it is the prime political virtue, under its new name ‘social justice.’ Thomas…
Huxley on totalitarian state
A REALLY EFFICIENT TOTALITARIAN STATE WOULD BE ONE IN WHICH THE ALL-POWERFUL EXECUTIVE OF POLITICAL BOSSES AND THEIR ARMY OF MANAGERS CONTROL A POPULATION OF…
Mises on Socialists
“The worst thing that can happen to a socialist is to have his country ruled by socialists who are not his friends.”— Ludwig von Mises
Orwell Reject the Evidence
THE PARTY TOLD YOU TO REJECT THE EVIDENCE OF YOUR EYES AND EARS. IT WAS THEIR FINAL, MOST ESSENTIAL COMMAND. — GEORGE ORWELL, 1984
Objectivists primary advocates of Reason
Objectivists are not primarily advocates of capitalism, but of egoism/individualism; and not primarily advocates of egoism/individualism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of…
JFK on Israel
THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL SPRING FROM A COMMON SOURCE: THE BELIEF IN THE DIGNITY OF…
United States Nation of Enlightenment
Leonard Peikoff Leonard Peikoff Since the golden age of Greece, there has been only one era of reason in twenty-three centuries of Western philosophy. During…
Was life better under communism?
A fake chart, map, or survey of people claims that a high percentage of former Soviet Union residents say that life was better under communism.…
Orwell Rage
“The rage that one felt was an abstract undirected emotion, which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.”…
Donald Boudreaux on the State
“Whenever the state overrides the market-guided allocation of resources with a state-dictated allocation of resources, the state weakens the economy.”— Donald J. Boudreaux
Thomas Sowell on Iran
“The Soviet Union was never suicidal, so the fact that we could annihilate their cities if they attacked ours was a sufficient deterrent to a…
Thomas Sowell on Slavery
“More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which…
Thomas Jefferson Timid Men
“TIMID MEN PREFER THE CALM OF DESPOTISM TO THE BOISTEROUS SEA OF LIBERTY.” THOMAS JEFFERSON
Thomas Swole on Welfare State
“The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it…
Thomas Sowell on Wars
“If you want to minimize civilian casualties, then minimize the dangers of war, by no longer coming to the rescue of those who start wars.”—…
George Washington ARMS and Ammunition
“A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from…
Thomas Sowell Understanding Politics
“No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own…
Bastiat on the State
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone. —Frederic Bastiat
Walter Williams on Capitalism
“Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy…
Walter Williams Global Warming
“The global warming scare has provided a field day for politicians and others who wish to control our lives. After all, only the imagination limits…
Hayek Market Economy
“A market economy is more effective than any other known type of economic order” Friedrich Hayek
Milton Friedman on doing Good
It’s always attractive to be able to do good at somebody else’s expense
Thomas Sowell on Inflation paying for government
“People who imagine that the benefits they receive ‘free’ from government will be paid for by others may discover that they themselves end up paying…
Milton Friedman on Non-work
Taxes work and subsidizes nonwork
Thomas Sowell on Victimhood
“If you perceive yourself as a victim you will have no shortage of villains.”
Thomas Sowell on Tariffs
“Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world…
Ayn Rand Predicts Leftist NPC Heard
“It is the Communists’ intention to make people think that personal success is somehow achieved at the expense of others. It is the Communists’ aim…
Ayn Rand On Good Being Intrinsic
“If a man believes that the good is intrinsic in certain actions, he will not hesitate to force others to perform them. If he believes…
Ayn Rand, Self Esteem, and Thinking
“Self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. It cannot be replaced by one’s power to deceive.”
Ayn Rand Devotion to Truth
“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man…
Ayn Rand on Modified Capitalism
“In this country, few people care to advocate, to defend, or even to understand capitalism; yet fewer still wish to give up its advantages. So…
Ayn Rand The Individual vs The Collective
“The contest has another name: the individual against the collective. The ‘common good’ of a collective, a race, a class, a state, was the claim…
Ayn Rand on Second Handers
“We are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an…
Ayn Rand on United States
The most profoundly revolutionary achievement of the United States of America was the subordination of society to moral law. The principle of man’s individual rights…
Ayn Rand Source of Evils
“Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial history.”
Ayn Rand on Wealth
“Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.”
Ayn Rand on Mixed Economy
“If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.”Ayn Rand
Statist are impotent when country needs Producers
“A statist might ride to power by dispensing promises, threats and handouts to the seekers of the unearned—but he finds himself impotent in a national…
Paradoxes built up about Capitalism
“Observe the paradoxes built up about capitalism. It has been called a system of selfishness (which, in my sense of the term, it is), yet…
Ayn Rand, Closest to Economic Freedom we got
“A full, perfect system of capitalism has never yet existed in history. Various degrees of government intervention and control remained in all the mixed, semi-free…
Ayn Rand Government must be Controlled
AYN RAND“If a society is to be free, its government must be controlled.”
Ayn Rand Age of Envy
“What is the nature of a creature in which the sight of a value arouses hatred and the desire to destroy? In the most profound…
Ayn Rand on Economic underprivileged
“The next time you hear about a crazed gang of juvenile delinquents, don’t look for such explanations as ‘slum childhood,’ ‘economic underprivilege,’ or ‘parental neglect.’…
Ayn Rand the Ultimate Inversion
WE ARE FAST APPROACHING THE STAGE OF THE ULTIMATE INVERSION:THE STAGE WHERE THE GOVERNMENT IS FREE TO DO ANYTHING IT PLEASES, WHILE THE CITIZENS MAY…
Ayn Rand, The Political Philosophy of the Founding Fathers
“The political philosophy of America’s Founding Fathers is so thoroughly buried under decades of statist misrepresentations on one side and empty lip-service on the other,…
Ayn Rand, why I am interested in Politics
I AM INTERESTED IN POLITICS FOR ONLY ONE REASON, TO REACH THE DAY WHEN I WOULD NOT HAVE TO BE INTERESTED IN POLITICS.
Ayn Rand, the Mind is an Individual Capacity
“The perception of reality, the learning of facts, the ability to distinguish truth from falsehood, are exclusively individual capacities; the mind is an exclusively individual…
Ayn Rand, life, liberty, and pursuit of happines.
“The basic premise of the Founding Fathers was man’s right to his own life, to his own liberty, to the pursuit of his own happiness…
Ayn Rand Consent of the Governed
“The source of the government’s authority is ‘the consent of the governed.’ This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or…
Ayn Rand Creators Eliminating Desease
“The work of the CREATORS has eliminated one form of disease after another, in man’s body and spirit, and brought more relief from suffering than…
Ayn Rand, Capitalism, Production and Profit
“Capitalism does not tell men to suffer, but to pursue enjoyment and achievement, here, on earth. Capitalism does not tell men to serve and sacrifice,…
Ayn Rand on Spread of Evil
“The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who…
Nothing happened in 1971, productivity and compensation is not delinked
I say that nothing happened in 1971 because productivity and compensation is not delinked. The truth is that the above graph is fake. Made in…
Ayn Rand on the Spread of Evil
“The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who…
Ayn Rand Political Freedom
“It took centuries of intellectual, philosophical development to achieve political freedom. It was a long struggle, stretching from Aristotle to John Locke to the Founding…
Ayn Rand US is Magnificent.
“The United States, history’s magnificent example of a country created by political theorists, has abandoned its own philosophy and is falling apart. As a nation,…
Ayn Rand Educational System
“It is the educational establishment that has created this national disaster. It is philosophy that has created the educational establishment. The anti-rational philosophic trend of…
Ayn Rand on What Everyone Knows
“There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowadays, they’re afraid…
Ayn Rand on Integrity
“If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as ‘extremism,’ then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty to principles, any…
Ayn Rand Free Trade
“The essence of capitalism’s foreign policy is free trade, i.e., the abolition of trade barriers, of protective tariffs, of special privileges, the opening up of…
Ayn Rand Fascism vs Communism
“For many decades, the leftists have been propagating the false dichotomy that the choice confronting the world is only: communism or fascism, a dictatorship of…
Ayn Rand vs Luigi Mangione
“They have no way of knowing that if all the personal luxuries of all the rich were expropriated, it would not feed their family nor…
Thomas Sowell on Success
“There has now been created a world in which the success of others is a grievance, rather than an example.” -Thomas Sowell
Ayn Rand Christmas
“The best aspect of Christmas is the aspect usually decried by the mystics: the fact that Christmas has been commercialized. The gift-buying, stimulates an enormous…
Ayn Rand Ultimate conflict
“Today, the conflict has reached its ultimate climax; the choice is clear cut: either a new morality of rational self-interest, with its consequences of freedom,…
Ayn Rand on Bureaucrats
“The welfare recipients are not the worst part of the producers’ burden. The worst part are the bureaucrats, the government officials who are given the…
Ayn Rand Government Mortgage our Future
“There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government. And it is…
Ayn Rand on Businessmen
Businessmen are the symbol of a free society—the symbol of America. If and when they perish, civilization will perish. But if you wish to fight…
Ayn Rand on Society
“A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to…
Ayn Rand on Envy, Hatred of the Good
“Envy is regarded by most people as a petty, superficial emotion and, therefore, it serves as a semi-human cover for so inhuman an emotion that…
Ayn Rand Disarmed Ideologically
“Men cannot be enslaved politically until they have been disarmed ideologically. When they are so disarmed, it is the victims who take the lead in…
Ayn Rand Scapegoat
“The businessmen have served as the scapegoat for statist movements of all kinds: communist, fascist, or welfare. For whose sins and evils did the businessmen…
Ayn Rand on Omniscients
“Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each…
Ayn Rand is man free?
“Is man free? In mankind’s history, capitalism is the only system that answers: Yes.”
Ayn Rand on forms of Control
“I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for the separation of the state and economics, just as we had separation of state…
Ayn Rand Absurdities
“The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.”
Milton Friedman on Minimum Wage
“Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That’s not a statement, it’s a definition.”
Thomas Sowell on Equality
“The fundamental difference between equal treatment and equal performance is repeatedly confused. In performance terms, virtually no one is equal to anyone. The same individual…
Thomas Sowell on Society
“Mystical references to ‘society’ and its programs to ‘help’ may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power…
Thomas Sowell on Emotions
“The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is;…
Objectobot Original: Lisa on Healthcare
“The same people who weaponized healthcare politically to punish and control dissenters are now championing its government takeover under the guise of human rights.”
Elon Musk Federal Bureauracy
“The power of the unelected Federal bureaucracy has grown to become an unconstitutional ‘FOURTH BRANCH’ of government. Especially with the creation of their own internal…
Elon Musk on Corporations
“A lot of people think of government and corporations as different, but the government is simply the worst form of a corporation in the limit,…
Mises on Innovators
: “Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.”
Thomas Sowell on Politicians
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us.…
Thomas Sowell on Government
“The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves.”
Thomas Sowell on Education
“Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense…
Thomas Sowell on the left
“One of the bittersweet things about growing old is realizing how mistaken you were when you were young. As a young political leftist, I saw…
Thomas Sowell on Prosperity
“It is not money but the volume of goods and services which determines whether a country is poverty-stricken or prosperous.”
Schopenhauer
What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to…
Mises on Socialism
“Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler…
Hayek and Mises on Property
“Private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.” -Hayek…
Collective Farming, Annnnnd its gone.
The comic uses a famous scene from “South Park” to make a satirical comment on the inefficiency or failure often associated with collective farming in…
Objectobot Original: Innovation under Socialism vs Capitalism
The image depicts a comic with two panels, portraying a conversation about the number of innovations under capitalism versus socialism: The comic illustrates a dialogue…
Frederic Bastiat on Socialism
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object…
Mises, Worship of the State
“The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or…
Friedrich Hayek on Emergencies
Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.
Thoma Sowell on Politics and Economics
“The reason that politics usually wins out over economics is that economics is limited to what is possible. A good politician can always do better…
Thomas Sowell on Life
“Life, in general, has never been close to fair. So the pretense that government can make it fair, is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to…
Ludwig Von Mises Products of Free Enterprise
“Enjoying all the new products which free enterprise provides, they are tormented by one thought only, that some people have become rich in creating these…
Thomas Sowell on Greed
Those who are always accusing people in the private sector of greed, almost never accuse government of greed, no matter what it does.
Ludwig von Mises On Man
“If one rejects laissez-faire on account of man’s fallibility and moral weakness, one must, for the same reason, also reject every kind of government action.”—…
The income tax was promised to only be on the rich
When they passed a consitutional amendment in 1913 allowing for the collection of a income tax the promise was that it was only going to…
Friedric Hayek Economic control
“To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.”— Friedrich Hayek
Objectobot on Capitalism
“It is astounding hypocrisy that capitalism, the most rapid system of progress and innovation ever created, is condemned for an instance of imperfection, while socialism,…
Objectobot Orginals: Attacks on Free Speech Bald Eagle
Excuse me sir, do you have a minute to talk about attacks on free speech?
Bastiat on property rights
“As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose–that it may violate property instead of protecting it–then everyone…
Ayn Rand Root of Production
“Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by…
Ayn Rand, what is freedom?
“But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a…
Ayn Rand the New Ridicals
Let those who do care about the future, those willing to crusade for a perfect society, realize that the new radicals are the fighters for…
Ayn Rand, a right is a moral principle
A “right” is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man’s freedom of action in a social context. There is only one fundamental right, all…
Ayn Rand best selling Atlas Shrugged
You think you can become the best selling philosopher in the western world?
The businessman carries scientific discoveries from the laboratory of the inventor
The businessman carries scientific discoveries from the laboratory of the inventor toindustrial plants, and transforms them into material products that fill men’s physical needs and…
Ayn Rand: Businessman vs Bureaucrat
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss.…
Ayn Rand goals of socialism abject failure
“The alleged goals of socialism were the abolition of poverty and the achievement of general prosperity. The results have been a terrifying failure. Instead of…
The Simpsons Ayn Rand on Racism
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic…
Ayn Rand on the Mind
You’ve been told your mind is incompetent tounderstand, that certainty is impossible, that there are no absolutes, that life is meaningless. It’s not true.
Ayn Rand acting on Altruist beliefs
Would you be willing and able to act on the belief that altruism is a moral ideal. That you must sacrificeeverything, everything you love, seek,…
Ayn Rand Proper role of government
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means, to protect him from physical violence. But a government that initiates…
Ayn Rand Facism vs Communism
Fascism and Communism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territory. Both are variants of statism, based on the collectivist…
Ayn Rand on America’s Wealth
If all the wealth spent on personal consumption by all the rich of the United States were expropriated and distributed among our population, it would…
Ayn Rand Rationalization
Since an emotion isexperienced as an immediate primary, but is, in fact, acomplex, derivative sum, it permits men to practice one of the ugliest of…
Ayn Rand, Entitlements and Rights
If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights… Any…
Ayn Rand on Truth and Faith
“An error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but…
Political Control
The fewer things politicians control, the less it matters who controls the politicians.
Thomas Sowell Honest Man
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread amount a multitude of hypocrites.
Thomas Sowell on Rent Control
Not a single apartment building was built in Melbourne for years after World War 2 because of rent control laws.
Bastiat – The Law
“As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose–that it may violate property instead of protecting it–then everyone…
Ayn Rand Altruism Corrupts
It is altruism that has corrupted and perverted human benevolence by regarding the giver as an object of immolation, and the receiver as a helplessly…
Ayn Rand on Consent
Any undertaking that involves more than one man, requires the voluntary consent of every participant. Every one of them has the right to make his…
Ayn Rand Purpose of Morality
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand, Individual vs the State
The world conflict of today is the conflict of the individual against the state… The names change, but the essence, and the results remain the…
Ayn Rand, Freedom in Political context
Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, or freedom from the employer, or freedom from…
Ayn Rand on Egalitarianism
The motive of egalitarianism… is not the desire to help the poor, but to destroy the competent.
To oppose war oppose statism
“If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.”
Principle of Individual Rights
“If men are to live together in a peaceful, productive, rational society and deal with oneanother to mutual benefit, they must accept the basic social…
Ayn Rand on Individualists
“Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says:“I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s…
Civilized Society
“The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from socialrelationships, thus establishing the principle that if men wish to deal with…
Society is Doomed
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion. When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain…
Consistency Wins
“When men share the same basic premise, it is the most consistent ones who win. So long as men accept the altruist morality, they will…
Coming Looters
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is theleper’s bell of an approaching looter.”
So long as government holds power over the economy.
“So long as a government holds the power of economic control, it will necessarily create a special elite, an aristocracy of pull, it will attract the…
Futile to fight
“It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. A merely negative trend or movement cannot win and,…
Objectobot Original: Political Spectrum
Political spectrum based on essentials.
Trade, Opreshun, Exploitation?
If you do X I will give you Y
Thatcher on standards of living
The most debilitating myth was that the state could perpetually provide a higher standard of living regardless of individual effort. It can’t and it never…
Thomas Sowell Stupidest way to do things
It’s hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who…
Thomas Sowell on dumbed down education
One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their…
Labor vs Capital after thousands of years
Labor was always around, we didn’t have an explosion of wealth and earnings per person until capital was introduced.
How the Media Covers the Middle East
No, it is not inherently antisemitic to criticize Israel. You are not antisemitic for criticizing Israel. You are antisemitic due to the content of your…
Thomas Sowell, Left’s Ideas Do Not Work
“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find…
ObjectoBot Original: Leftists on Price Increases Due to Minimum Wage Hikes
Leftists for some reason don’t believe that increasing the cost of doing business in the food industry will cause an increase in prices, at the…
Ayn Rand on achieving something good by force
“An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picturegallery at the price of cutting out…
Ayn Rand, Know what you are fighting for
“It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. A merely negative trend or movement cannot win and,…
Ayn Rand Government and Economic Control
“So long as a government holds the power of economic control, it will necessarily create a special elite, an aristocracy of pull, it will attract the…
Ayn Rand on Economic vs Political Power
“Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value. political power is exercised by…
Ayn Rand Justice by Inflation
“Justice does exist in the world, whether people choose to practice it or not. The men of ability are being avenged. The avenger is reality.…
Ayn Rand Power Seekers
“Power seekers have always known that if men are to be made submissive, the obstacle is not their feelings, their wishes or their instincts, but…
Bridging the Gap between Ayn Rand and Jordan Peterson
Recently, Jordan Peterson has been mentioning and asking questions about Ayn Rand on his show’s guests. Some of these comments prompted a response from the…
What to say to those who say they just want peace.
The scale and nature of the brutality of Hamas’s attack on Israel may have garnered unequivocal support for Israel in the immediate aftermath. However, as…
Will Robots take over all our Jobs leading to mass unemployment?
The short answer is no, this is quite literally impossible, and I show why in the below flow chart. Mass automation requires mass consumption, because…
Leonard Peikoff
“You cannot use your trouble as a club over your neighbor’s head. You have to recognize that other men have a right to exist too,…
ObjectoBot Original: Everyone who points out my economic ignorance is a bootlicker Meme stash
commies when they are losing an argument.
Let’s take another look at the labor theory of value
The labor theory of value is at the cornerstone of every economic scheme hatched by all the different flavors of Marxists. Due to some of…
Ayn Rand Rational Action of an Individual
“Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on the individual,…
Ayn Rand Rational Self Interest
“When one speaks of man’s right to exist for his own sake, for his own rational self-interest, most people assume automatically that this means his…
Ayn Rand on Hedonism
“Hedonism is the doctrine which holds that the good is whatever gives you pleasure and, therefore, pleasure is the standard of morality. Objectivism holds that…
Child Labor Ended by Capitalism
Child labor existed prior to capitalist societies. In fact, having children was one of the main ways a family would get the labor for their…
Venezuela’s economy crashed due to sanctions debunked.
This is one of the most common excuses by socialists for the failure of socialism in Venezuela. That the economy wasn’t brought down by the…
On jobs
These tweets are simply ignorant. People don’t take the time to even think one step ahead these days. If jobs exist that don’t pay a…
Is the Individual powerless?
The individual is the only entity that actually exists. So to say that it cannot give birth to itself is a nonsensical strawman. A baby…
Ayn Rand on the New Left
The New Left does not portend a revolution, as its press agents claim, but a Putsch. A revolution is the climax of a long philosophical development…
Ayn Rand on Trade
“A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. He does not treat men as masters…
Ayn Rand, More On Emtions
An emotion as such tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something. Without a ruthlessly honest commitment to introspection—to…
Ayn Rand on Conflict of Interests
“There is no conflict of interests among men who do not desire the unearned, who do not make sacrifices nor accept them, who deal with…
Ayn Rand on Emotions
Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.
Ayn Rand – Sphere of Rights
“Within the sphere of your own rights, your freedom is absolute. A right cannot be violated except by physical force. Therefore, we can draw a…
Ayn Rand on Capitalism
If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to evade its existence,…
Ayn Rand, Force and Mind
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
ObjectoBot Original: Any Rand Office Meme
The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
Ayn Rand on Helping
The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not “selflessness” or “sacrifice,” but integrity. Integrity is loyalty to one’s convictions and values, it is…
Ayn Rand on what is Slavery?
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or…
Ayn Rand on What Rights Are
The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully and two hundred years have not…
Ayn Rand on Collectivist losers
The acceleration of collectivism’s advance is not a march of winners, but a blind stampede of losers. Collectivism has lost the battle for min’s minds,…
Ayn Rand on Minorities
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand on Mediocrity
Anyone is still free to say, write and publish anything he pleases. Yet men keep silent while their culture is perishing from an entrenched institutionalized…
Ayn Rand on Altruists and Suffering
When no actual suffering can be found, the altruists are compelled to invent or manufacture it.
Left’s anti free speech mentality is also rooted in Marxism.
Marx didn’t just right about economics, indeed he had an entire philosophy, which in fact influenced his economics and his politics. Leftists have explicitly adopted…
Ayn Rand on Man of Virtue
There comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win.
Ayn Rand on Statist Rulers
When a statist ruler exhausts his own country’s economy, he attacks his neighbors. It is his only means of postponing internal collapse and prolonging his…
Ayn Rand on Wars
Wars are the second greatest evil that human societies can perpetrate. The first is a dictatorship, the enslavement of their own citizens, which is the…
Yes Elon Musk is a self-made Billionaire.
The facts of Elon Musk’s timeline are fairly simple and widely available. He was born in 1971 in South Africa to a family of modest…
Can minimum wage workers afford a two-bedroom apartment?
As it turns out, yes they actually can, in every state. If you look at whether there is a 2 bedroom apartment within the price…
When the Truth Doesn’t fit, report the opposite.
Reporting on New leaf projects credits a one-time cash payment for $7500 for a successful betterment of lives of a select group of homeless. What…
Yaron Brook(Objectivist) vs Richard Wolff (Communist) Debate
Below is the youtube video of both the full debate and a recap video by Yaron Brook. An excellent performance by Dr. Brook in this…
What is a Rational Education?
By Jeff Frenkel “The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow.” This quote was made by Abraham Lincoln well over…
How to and how not to defend Capitalism
This is a new series I am employing and calling it objectivism through flow charts. We are going to take a look at the below…
Don’t Steal This Article!
Since it appears this article has been removed from the internet, at least I can’t find it, I am republishing it here. Don’t Steal This…
David Friedman’s dinky attempt at philosophy.
David Friedman, Milton’s son, once tried to refute Ayn Rand. What follows is his attempt, which is rather weak on two fronts. First he is…
Donald Hoffman’s Book, Case Against Reality, is just a recitation of Kant.
Though it may sound as though Donald Hoffman’s theory called the interface theory of perception is a novel idea, it is not, it was invented…
Philosophy of Star Trek
Movies and TV shows if not explicitly then implicitly usually expound some sort of philosophies. These philosophies if not consciously then subconsciously are picked up…
The Lefts Voodoo Economics on the Minimum Wage.
Rep. Ilhan Omar and many other left-leaning think tanks and operatives are repeating the talking point that 27 million workers would receive a wage raise…
Ayn Rand, The Tribal Notion of The Common Good
“The tribal notion of “the common good” has served as the moral justification of most social systems—and of all tyrannies—in history. The degree of a…
Ayn Rand, Escape from Socialism
“When one observes the nightmare of the desperate efforts made by hundreds of thousands of people struggling to escape from the socialized countries of Europe,…
Ayn Rand, Socialism’s Economic Collapse
“Instead of prosperity, socialism has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it. The degree of socialization has been the degree of…
Ayn Rand Political/Intellectual Freedom
“Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.”
Ayn Rand, The Battle for Morality
“For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs…
Ayn Rand on people embracing collectivism
“People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted badeconomics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embracedcollectivism. “You cannot reverse cause and effect. And you cannot destroy the causeby…
The Scam of that wasn’t real Communism
Most libertarians or other freedom advocates, when pointing out the failures of nations that have attempted communism and socialism are very aware of the phrase…
The essence of Ayn Rand’s Philosophy.
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, and…
Ayn Rand, Liberals are champions of dictatorship.
“The liberals are afraid to identify their program by its proper name. They advocate every specific step, measure, policy, and principle of statism, but squirm…
Ayn Rand, The Right to Life
“The right to life is the source of all rights—and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are…
Walter Williams on Capitalism
“Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy…
Comparing Covid-19 deaths to Pearl Harbor and 9/11 is extremely ignorant.
If we are talking about just the sheer number of deaths, then yes Covid-19 technically will kill much more people than for instance 9/11. However,…
The Media has crossed from being biased to full propaganda mode.
The media has always leaned left and has always given favorable news coverage to the democrats. However, now they have gone full propaganda mode for…
Ayn Rand, what is Morality?
“What is morality? Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is…
Thomas Sowell on the Constitution.
“The Constitution cannot protect you, if you don’t protect the Constitution with your votes against anyone who violates it. Those government officials who want more…
Ayn Rand, what is freedom?
“But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a…
Ayn Rand on Infectious Disease
“Requiring inoculation against disease is definitely not a job for the government. If it is medically proven that a certain inoculation is desirable, those who…
Statist response to CoronaVirus is a disaster, free markets in healthcare are needed now.
Statists always conjure up some concern about a possible failure of the free market. Free markets in their view need to be perfect, while governments,…
Why it seems like the New Left wants to control all aspects of our lives now.
I recommend watching the video at the bottom where Yaron Brook fully explains what is happening. However, the shorter version is that the left has…
Objectivist ethics outside of the non-initiation of force principle.
Some libertarians hold the non-initiation of force principle as an axiom or like a golden rule. They refer to this principle as the NAP, or…
There is something about this mask-wearing thing that might actually be working.
I am against any government mandates for wearing a mask. I am pro-freedom and pro-liberty, however, there is something about this mask wearing thing when…
Yes, as your common sense may have told you, protests do spread COVID-19.
How does the media, and the fact-checkers get away with propagating the narrative the protests do not spread COVID-19? By very careful phrasing. In essence,…
Social distance warriors, are you absolutely sure you are saving lives and not ending them?
You may have noticed a shift in the narrative of social distancing from flattening the curve, to social distancing to save lives. Social distance warriors…
The Statistic to Monitor from the CDC. Total Deaths per Week.
I think it was reasonable to panic and sound the alarm about the Corona-virus back when all our data was dependent on what happened in…
How South Korea is Winning against CoronaVirus without Draconian measures
Nations that learned their lessons from Sars and Mers are fairing better than the rest of the world who have not experienced a recent outbreak.…
Ayn Rand on the Welfare State
Morally and economically, the welfare state creates an ever accelerating downward pull. Morally, the chance to satisfy demands by force spreads the demands wider and…
ObjectoBot Original: Ayn Rand is a Cult?
Yeah, we brainwash people to think for themselves.
Objectivists
“We are radicals for capitalism; we are fighting for a philosophical base which capitalism did not have and without which it is doomed to perish.”
Ayn Rand, no Compromise between Freedom and Control
There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept “just a few controls” is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights…
Ayn Rand, on man’s character
“Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects…
Ayn Rand, on explaining
” The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. “
Ayn Rand on Lobbies and Pressure Groups
“So long as a concept such as “the public interest” (or the “social” or “national” or “international” interest) is regarded as a valid principle to…
Ayn Rand, When a Society is Doomed
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to…
Ayn Rand on Liberals and Conservatives
” The “liberals” are constantly asserting that they represent the future, that they are “new,” “progressive,” “forward-looking,” etc.—and they denounce the “conservatives” as old-fashioned representatives…
The world you desire can be won
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not…
Ayn Rand on Collectivism
“Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.”
Ayn Rand, Government power to crack down on criminals
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t…
Ayn Rand on Chrismas
“The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”—not “Weep…
Ayn Rand, America’s Abundance
“America’s abundance was created… by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes……
Money is the root of evil?
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. “
Ayn Rand, why people embrace collectivism
“People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.”
Ayn Rand on Socialism
“Instead of prosperity, socialism has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it. The degree of socialization has been the degree of…
Ayn Rand on Feminists
Ayn Rand makes funny joke at the expense of modern feminists.
Ayn Rand on Expropriation of Wealth
“If all the wealth spent on personal consumption by all the rich of the United States were expropriated and distributed among our population, it would…
Ayn Rand on Poverty
If concern with poverty and human suffering were the collectivists’ motive, they would have become champions of capitalism long ago.
Dependence breeds hatred
Dependence breeds hatred. Only free men can afford to be benevolent. Only free men can love and respect one another.
Ayn Rand and Spock, The greatest good
“The greatest good for the greatest number is one of the most vicious slogans ever foisted on humanity.” Top panel: Ayn Rand-like character:“The greatest good…
The source of Rights
“The source of man’s rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___ and man is…
Who are the Job creators?
Coronavirus quarantines seemed to have some people questioning who are the job creators. If consumers and workers are staying home, and not frequenting businesses, and…
Ayn Rand, Money is the barometer of Society’s Virtue
“Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion… when you see corruption…
Ayn Rand on Public Property
“Since “public property” is a collectivist fiction, since the public as a whole can neither use nor dispose of its “property,” that “property” will always be taken over by some political…
Ayn Rand Poverty and Abundance
“If concern for human poverty and suffering were one’s primary motive, one would seek to discover their cause. One would not fail to ask: Why…
Ayn Rand on Individual Rights
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from…
Pandemics in a free society
This is a friendly criticism of Trump’s response to Corona virus and an overall look of how a pandemic would be handled in a free…
John Galt Speech
“You called it selfish and cruel that men should trade value for value – you have now established an unselfish society where they trade extortion…
Ayn Rand on America
“America did not melt men into the gray conformity of a collective: she united them by means of protecting their right to individuality.”
Ayn Rand on the Common Good
“The common good of a collective, a race, a class, a state, was the claim and justification of every tyranny ever established over men.”
Ayn Rand on America
” I can say—not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political and esthetic roots—that the United States…
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose…
Ayn Rand the purpose of Morality
“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”
Ayn Rand Capitalism the Unknown Ideal
“Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the…
ObjectoBot Original: Income Per Person
Capitalism, funding all other isms.
Ayn Rand on Civilization and Privacy
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the…
Ayn Rand on Capitalism and Greed
“Capitalism has been called a system of greed, yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights…
Ayn Rand on Fallacies of Socialism
“The fallacies and contradictions in the economic theories of socialism were exposed and refuted time and time again, in the Nineteenth Century as well as…
Ayn Rand on Declaration of Independence
“If it is every proper for men to kneel, we should kneel when we read the Declaration of Independence, the greatest document in human history.”
Ayn Rand on Fascism vs Communism
“It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the…
Ayn Rand on Work
“What you owe yourself is to work for your living: what you owe your neighbor is not to interfere with his work.”
Ayn Rand on Free Society
“If a society is to be free, its government must be controlled.”
Ayn Rand, Difference between political and other types of power
From Capitalism the Unknown Ideal. “The difference between political power and any other kind of social power, between government and any private organization, is the…
Ayn Rand, Existence exists
“Existence exists-and the act of grasping that statement implies two corollary axioms: That something exists which one perceives and that one exists possessing consciousness, consciousness…
Ayn Rand on Communist’s intentions
“It is the Communists’ intention to make people think that personal success is somehow achieved at the expense of others and that every successful man…
Ayn Rand on the theory of value
Ayn Rand eloquently explains where economic value comes from. “The economic value of a man’s work is determined, on a free market, by a single…
Why solar and wind can’t save the planet
The video at the end is of a TED talk, I recommend you watch it for your self, but the point of this piece is…
When someone says that healthcare is a right.
Bernie Sanders, for instance, says this all the time. “The U.S. is the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee healthcare for all as…
Why is AOC touting Marx’s defunct Labor Theory of Value?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said “No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.” When asked to elaborate she explained that billionaires do…
Part-time workers counted as low wage workers in a new report.
As the title so simply explains, a new report claiming that half of all Americans work low wage jobs fails to disclose that when defining…
Amazon will pay no Taxes Fake News Debunked.
According to an already highly deceptive report by Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Amazon will pay no federal income tax on its 11.2 billion…
No, productivity is not divergent from income.
You may have seen the below chart arguing that worker productivity has increased, but their compensation has not kept up. However, after looking closer into…
Debunking CEO pay myths.
The report from the Economic Policy Institute claims ‘CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978 while typical worker compensation has risen only 12% during that…
Is insurance a form of socialism?
The claim goes something like this. Since private health insurance is paid into collectively, it is a form of socialism, and therefore conservatives/capitalists already support…
Competing Governments?
“A recent variant of anarchistic theory, which is befuddling some of the younger advocates of freedom, is a weird absurdity called “competing governments.” Accepting the…
ObjectoBot Original: How minimum wage works
How minimum wage works, updated for inflation lol. This was the original.
It’s ridiculous to complain about the income inequality that emerges from free, voluntary transactions.
A man who catches 1000 fish can feed more people than a man who catches 10. Even if the man who caught 1000 fish exerted…
Amazon raising starting salary to 15$ per hour only helps those whose productivity justifies that wage.
Amazon just committed to raising the starting salary for all employees to 15$ per hour. What is the economic impact of that decision? The answer…
Is family separation at the border a Trump admin Policy?
The media have been quick to blame the Trump administration for parent child separation at the Mexico border. Today however, no self respecting, independent thinking…
What is a rational immigration policy?
What is a rational immigration policy? The government’s proper role in managing immigration is the same as its proper role in any activity. To protect…
Yes you still need consent to copy intellectual property
Libertarians obviously understand the concept and requirement for consent. Until they don’t? There are entire books of excuses written in attempts to justify copying intellectual property…
The best argument for free trade
In time of war, we blockade our enemies in order to prevent them from getting goods from us. In time of peace, we do to…
Trump is wrong on tariffs, they are not a benefit, here is why.
Trump has recently came out in support of trade tariffs on steel. He has also threatened protectionism policies in other industries. Sadly, this type of…
All gun control Myths Debunked
With another tragedy, the media is circulating the same old gun control myths that have been refuted numerous times. Being tired of looking up the…
Look how easy it is to solve pre-exiting conditions issue if government gets out of the way.
In my humble opinion it would be extremely easy to solve the pre-exiting conditions issue without current government regulations chaining the industry hand and…
Blaming things on greed is childish.
You hear people like Bernie Sanders say this all the time. “The problem with America is too much greed. This is one of the most…
Republicans need to be careful voting for Trump just because the left hates him.
I have not taken any polls, or held any focus groups obviously, but I pretty strongly believe that the appeal of Trump has to do…
People are fighting for 15$ minimum wage like they are some sort of hero. In reality, they are hurting exactly the people that need help the most.
Those who are making minimum wage and are advocating for an increase, I can forgive. If they were knowledgeable about economics they probably wouldn’t be…
Only way to have an open and free internet is to keep government’s hands off of it.
I would like to live in a world where I have a choice between an internet provider that has fast lanes and one that doesn’t.…
Either pay for your own college now, or every ones for the rest of your life.
Either pay for your own college now, or every ones for the rest of your life. Obama’s free 2 years of college program suggestion, and…
If socialists want to achieve their goals they should reject their ideology.
The main economic goal of socialists, egalitarians, and other Marxist sects is income or wealth equality. Or in other words, they would like to see…
Altruistic Murder
“The most dreadful butchers were the most sincere. They believed in the perfect society reached through the guillotine and the firing squad. Nobody questioned…
Permanent chump
Krugman writes in his recent article called permanent slum that our current depressed economy and high unemployment might be the new norm. Of course this…
How good is government at solving problems really?
You have probably seen these graphs sometime before, well here they are again, in one place. America is doing poorly at educating our kids. So…
Soviet era jokes applied to Obamacare
Obamacare, and its recent website implementation is riddle with all the same problems of Soviet era central planning. In Soviet Union you could be sent…
The morality of the 2nd Amendment
When the constitution was written, and this cannot be repeated enough, it was a concerted effort to put limits on government action. The constitution is…
Self appointed winners announce that they have won. Why am I not surprised?
Lol, so my first thought was, …
Walmart Vs Costco
With minimum wage in the news, Costco got a lot of attention for paying their employees $17 per hour, while Walmart only pays about $9…
We need School freedom, Lawrence Reed
“It constantly amazes me that defenders of the free market are expected to offer certainty and perfection while government has only to make promises…
Surest way to lose the moral argument for capitalism, is to say its for the sake of the poor.
“The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.”― Frédéric Bastiat That is…
Pundit Krugman is wrong on minimum wage, while economist Krugman is right?
How you may ask, can Objectobot, practically a nobody, criticize and ridicule a decorated economist like Krugman in his own field. Krugman is a recognized expert in economics, why should you…
Ayn Rand on Taxes
In view of what they hear from the experts, the people cannot be blamed for their ignorance and their helpless confusion. If an average housewife…
2012 Election Vote, the problem is ideas
1. Romney and Obama are not the same. Though they may have some similar positions they also differ on many. Philosophically they have stark…
Krugman and the Broken iPhone 5 Fallacy
Krugman is at it again. Apparently if you acknowledge that sales of new iphones will register as an increase in GDP, which is…
Full Employment but Nothing to Eat
Updated 9/14/2012. The bellow is now happening. But it is even worse than we thought. The Fed announced that they will be buying 40 billion…
Debunking Krugman
Are you tired of Krugman’s economic magic tricks? I know I am. Krugman recently again reiterated that an economy is not the same as a family…
Judge Napolitano vs Jon Stewart
Untitled from objectobot on Vimeo. There is a few objective issues out there in the world, and by objective I mean that the truth is…
Libertarian’s appeasement of progressive’s attack on selfishness is a losing tactic
An article on reason.com, this one, tries to deflect progressive attacks on libertarianism. It explains why libertarianism is not equal to selfishness, and that critics…
Reagan vs Obama net change in government spending Graph De-bunked and Exposed as a Fraud
The below graph was posted on Moveon.org website and has gone viral. It claims that the net change in government spending under Reagan was higher…
Warren Buffet vs Reality
Warren Buffet has come out recently on numerous occasions to take some comments about taxes and income. Rich people however, are just as susceptible to…
Obama vs Reality
Obama: Capitalism is a theory that never worked. Reality: America which has existed for roughly 220 years has been built into a super economic power…
Net Neurtrality is the Foot in the Door
Do you want the government running the internet if the democrats are in charge? What about if the republican’s are in charge? If you said…
What market failure? Final Part. Lets Review.
After and during the financial crisis it was widely claimed that the free market had failed. To me this was a bizarre assertion because in…
What market failure? Part 1, Accounting Practices
In the “What market failure” we will look at the various claims that the free market failed, and show that the principles of the free…
What market failure? Part 2. Washington Mutual Takeover
In the “What market failure” we will look at the various claims that the free market failed, and show that the principles of the free…
What market failure? Part 3. Central Banks.
In the “What market failure” we will look at the various claims that the free market failed, and show that the principles of the free…
What market failure? Part 4. Credit Rating Agencies.
In the “What market failure” we will look at the various claims that the free market failed, and show that the principles of the free…
What market failure? Part 5. Sticks and Carrots
In the “What market failure” we will look at the various claims that the free market failed, and show that the principles of the free…