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Recorded on June 24, 2022.
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0:00 Intro to me and Objectivism
3:47 How do you fund a government without taxes?
4:49 Funding the military and a foreign policy of self-interest
14:09 Self-interest and freedom
19:39 Why haven’t countries adopted a fully voluntary system without taxes? Altruism.
29:04 Historical evidence for/against capitalism
30:48 Public education
33:40 Ayn Rand’s conception of selfishness
35:04 Why did Rand use the word “selfishness” and not something else?
36:23 Self-interest and helping others
38:25 Vaccines and the government’s proper role
40:42 Charity/benevolence under freedom vs. coercion
41:38 Poverty under freedom vs. coercion
42:26 Homelessness etc. under freedom vs. coercion
43:37 Coercive wages
44:54 Coercion. Becoming a “slave” to save one’s child: Is it moral? Should it be legal?
55:30 Coercion and prosperity; reason as the basic means of survival
57:59 Wealth inequality
59:33 Freedom/coercion and prosperity, in the long-run
1:04:52 Closing
At 59:27, I misspeak. I should have said we want inequality of wealth, not rights.
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