Because – you’re worth it!
She didn’t believe in anything very much. Communism, fascism, altruism, capitalism, collectivism; they were all the same to her; forms of subjugation and oppression. No, what Ayn Rand believed in was objectivism, "the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." Rand argued for rational egoism (rational self-interest), as the only proper guiding moral principle. The individual "must exist for his own sake," she wrote in 1962, "neither sacrificing... Read more »
