Ayn Rand

I was born in Russia in 1905 and became a famous writer, best known for putting forth the ideas of objectivism. This philosophy believes that humans live to serve themselves and to attain their own happiness. There is no "living for the good of the society." That's nonsense. It never works out in reality. Ever since I read about U.S. history when I was in high school, I have praised America as a true nation of freedom that other nations should look up to. It is a model of capitalism, where property rights are protected amongst other individual rights. As an objectivist, I completely disagree with any society that plans on redistributing wealth in a government-regulated economy. Giving equal amounts of wealth to everyone seems fair at first. But that would mean equal profits for the entrepreneur who created life-changing inventions and the same profits for a lazy person who did nothing. Is that fair? Absolutely not. These societies were based on the idea that everyone should be rich, leading happy lives. The wealthy shouldn't dominate over the poor. But if everyone is rich, isn't that the same thing as saying everyone's poor? And look: that's exactly what happened when communist nations all turned out to have miserable, starving people. The government controlled all means of production. Well that can't possibly become corrupt, now can it? Capitalism gives you the chance to move up to the wealthy class, while also limiting the government with a free market economy. A money-based society allows people to gain for themselves, which is what objectivism is all about.