If someone steals our property, our pursuit of values is thwarted or prevented altogether. This is exactly what the government does when, instead of letting us decide how to live our lives and spend our money, it taxes us and decides how our money is to be spent.
The argument that narrowing the income gap between the wealthy and the poor will improve everyone’s health defies facts and logic.
In free markets with a strong protection of individual rights by the government, competition weeds out bad products and bad companies.
Is it ethical to fire employees who are on a leave?
Businesses should not self-censor and appease those who bully them. They should uphold the right to free speech and liberty—and pressure governments everywhere to do their job of protecting business and the rest of us against the initiators of physical force.
Your life depends on it.
The notion that business should sacrifice its self-interest—profit—to some undefinable “collective good” is ludicrous.
Why should one follow honesty systematically, as a principle?
Moral principles, such as self-interest, rationality, honesty, justice, integrity, independence, productiveness, and pride, are not based on feelings but on facts.
Freedom is the only means to increase human well-being.
There is a moral code that is consistent with long-term profitability of business.
Why do we accept humility as a virtue?
If businesses want to operate successfully, they must stand up for liberty and freedom of speech, in solidarity to those who have been attacked, for their own self-interest.
Long-term wealth can only be created by earning it: by trading value for value for win-win outcomes.
Based on meticulous research and backed up with solid facts, Epstein makes the case that fossil fuels—coal, oil, and natural gas—have tremendous positive impact on human life.
Proper protection of individual rights by government and private licensing and certification programs would make us safer (100% safety for fallible and mortal beings is impossible)—no regulations and government inspectors needed.
Benevolence does not require self-sacrifice.
Capitalism, in Ayn Rand’s definition, is “a social system based on the recognition of individual rights (including property rights) in which all property is privately owned.”
People are suspicious of self-interest because for every philosopher who has taught and advocated self-interest, there have been multiples of those who have taught its opposite, altruism.
Cheating means breaking a rule or law; legal tax avoidance merely exploits “regulatory loopholes” without breaking the law and is part of a legitimate profit maximization strategy.
Companies should be free to operate in any way they choose: to develop mining and oil sands operations, to build pipelines or nuclear power plants, to start and operate biotechnology ventures or any others—as long as they do not violate the individual rights of others, including their rights to liberty and property.
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