kaka2za wrote:I like Ayn Rand books on objectivism. Human beings are motivated by personal greed and that 's why capitalism thrived over socialism!
Ha! Objectivism, the comfort of Conservatives everywhere.
Human beings may be motivated by greed, but only up to a point, otherwise we would not have social groups that survive on sharing.
But Capitalism thrives not on human emotions but on markets. Yani for capitalism to stay alive there must be people willing to sell and people willing to buy.
The more people you can uplift to participate in the markets the better for capitalism. Fail to do this and Capitalist systems ultimately collapse from the fatal wound of uncontrolled inequality. In fact it is from such conditions that Marxism was invented and took root.
And there dies Ayn Rand's central argument
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (Niels Bohr)