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I finished Ayn Rand's “The Virtue of Selfishness” the day before and will thus seal this chapter in my reading list firstly. “The Fountainhead” will follow someday else. Attached to this post you see, piled up next to this last book of mine I read, the books of hers I read so far
(Books in the background unrelated)
And because I am not going to share the “essay” on her separately on Blogpost because the Mises one was already one hell of a workload I do not need to experience again. Wait until I am ready to present it to you.

Instead, I will write a
short thread on what I now thing of #AynRand and her #Objectivism, although I do not warrant definitiveness even on my own views. It'll just be a pile of thoughts and opinions.

So, many say that her views are blunt, juvenile, populist, even misanthropic and fascist. Prior to
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1/4 Ayn Rand on Fiat $

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper.

#atlasshrugged #bitcoin
2/4 Ayn Rand on Fiat $

This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced.

#bitcoin #aynrand #gold
3/4 Ayn Rand on Fiat $

Paper is a mortgage on wealth that doesn't exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.
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