Randian philosophy summed up in a sentence.

[NashvilleLefty]

"I'm not better than you because I'm rich, I'm rich because I'm better than you."

[elehhhhna]

1. brilliant

welcome to DU!!!

[elehhhhna]

2. imo "i'm better than you" sums it up

they don't justify, or examine it. it's just how it is.

[NashvilleLefty]

5. "They don't justify, or examine it". That sums up

the Austrian School of Economics. Their main argument is that economics is "too complicated" to build a working model. Sort of like Chaos Theory which I believe came from meteorology and yet they have pretty good predictive models for weather forecasting. Instead they believe you have to rationalize economics. That's why I like to call it "Trust Me Economics". Of course, they were all a bunch of silver spoon "thinkers" so they "rationalized" a system to justify their family's riches and improving it.

So, we have tried their theories 3 times and each time they led to Recession. Whereas Keynesian Economics has worked almost every time, and when it didn't work as expected we tweaked it and made it work.

[cbayer]

3. Well done.

[NightWatcher]

4. is that from "The Virtue of Selfishness"?

Like Maya Angelou said "When people show you who they are believe them the first time"

[NashvilleLefty]

6. Actually, I haven't read that

but it sounds like I should!

[NightWatcher]

9. it's a horrid collection of Rand's essays espousing the goodness of being a prick

I think Obama could win if he did nothing but run ads of Rand's quotes

[Hatchling]

7. I have a simpler sentence.

"I got mine, screw you."

[polichick]

8. That's the GOP motto.