Ayn Rand Institute

Doesn't fuckin matter. Still a massive hypocrisy that discredits her entirely

I dont even like Rand but its not hypocritical to withdraw from a system you were forced to pay into

It is when you've rallied against that system your entire life.

Not really, I dont like social security, but I certainly want to get the money I put it back and I certainly feel I am entitled to something I paid for

I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.

“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”

“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”

“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”

The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”

“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”

“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”

He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”

“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”

I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.

“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.

“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.

“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”

It didn’t seem like they did.

“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”

Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.

I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.

“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.

Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.

“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.
I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”

He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.

“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”

“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.

“Because I was afraid.”

“Afraid?”

“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”

I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.

“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”

He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.

This was hilarious.

Would read again.

Ehh Mad Max universe and its "society just tears itself to shreds as the environment dies" apocalypse fits Ancapistan better than "lol nukes"

I hate Rand, but couldn't you justify that under rational egoism?

>system working as intended
>OMG SOCIALISM
>collects paycheck

This is why the selfish libertarians will never come into power. Freedom doesn't come for free. Civil disobedience requires that you take a personal hit to do what is right. But that's against the principles of libertarians. This is also why socialism despite being stupid will continue to shape the discourse since it is by nature selfless.

Fallout is individualist anarchism. Property thereis based upon occupancy and use.

>we will have a stronger middle class and we will make the rich pay for it!
>selfless

Literally forcing rich cunts to be selfless, so yes.

I will never not love this pasta.

>“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®”
ffffffffffriggin heck

Randroids are nutters, but there is no contradiction whatsoever in an an-cap running a non-profit organization.

not it isn't you mong

this post was shit

"Duddddeee have you played bioshock ???"
both are retarded strawmen

Why won't you say her using public roads discredits her ideology? It's basically the same thing. There's nothing wrong about getting in return some money you've paid in taxes. In her fight with the system she did pay taxes, and therefore was entitled morally to the benefits that she paid for.

But her ideology basically says if something can't bring profit from selling goods on free market then people don't need it and it's useless, so she says her ideology and institute named after her are useless and shouldn't exist because people don't need it

You won't fool us into thinking you're not a randroid if you just say you don't like her

She also rallied against mandatory taxation and yet she paid more in taxes than your entire family

I'm just curious, how does Ayn Rand perceive the idea of war, and the concept of it? How would a society free of taxes afford to defend itself?

Every citizen has to pay for their individual soldier(s) representing them at a fair market rate.

>randists
>ancap

She's not an an cap, she wants the minimal state to exist and provide protection, including army, but not paid by mandatory taxation, she has illusions that people will voluntarily pay the taxes if they don't have to

> that people will voluntarily pay the taxes if they don't have to
You mean delusions.
Basically this post is serious then

> I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.

>Freedom ain't free

you stupid nigger an institution that pushes an ideology is different from private individuals having a right to their own money.

How do you even prevent immigration without a state and thus no nation?

The local McBarron or Burger Kingpin will have an interest in protecting their lands from uninvited, non-producing people. Assuming they're not coming to under cut their domestic labor force. In that case the Taco Tyrant would evict the current population.

really makes you think

it basically just turns into feudalism right away. Ten thousand baronies from sea to shining sea

No, because Ayn Rand's "Rational" "Egotism" requires you to support the free market at all times.

Those games aren't an argument against anarchy, if that's what you're thinking. Not the good ones anyway.

You can't copyright things without a state you dumb nigger

You can if you hire a private copyright enforcement militia.

This. Copyright still exists under anarcho-capitalism but only if you pay for it

>In perfect competition with an infinite number of firms there is theoretically no profit
Checkmate statists

A non profit organization is simply an organization that decides that profit is not it's primary goal.
The primary goal is spreading ancapism.

Doesn't matter, per her own philosophy as soon as she became useless to society she should've killed herself instead of becoming yet another drain upon it.

Ayn Rand was a hack writer and a massive hypocrite.

>It's ok because i put money into it, and im now getting it back;
isn't the whole theoretical basis of systems like these "we make people put money in the common chest, which is then given back whenever they are in a though spot?" You know, like say, i'm a lonely old bitch that ran out of money and drove all her friends and family away, and is dying of lung cancer from smoking like crazy, despite me saying that cigs causing cancer is a socialist meme.

And if she really believed in her philosophy, she would have did like that other chick, and refused to take welfare, despite it killing her. Now that woman had balls. Rand doesn't have balls, despite looking like a man.

Absolutely.

National Football League, annual revenues of, say, $20,000,000,000.

Is a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization.

>tfw you will never have wacky ancap adventures

Wait, are you being ironic?

>Doesn't matter, per her own philosophy as soon as she became useless to society she should've killed herself instead of becoming yet another drain upon it.
Show me a single line from her books that implies this.

ITT: "RAND WAS A FFUCKING NAZI@!!!!!!!@@!111!! MY LIBERAL ARTS PROFESSOR SAID SO AND IF YOU DONT THINK YOURE A FUCKING RETARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111 SHE TOOK WELFARE AND WASNT A FUCKING SUPERHUMAN LIKE ALL HER CHARACTERS!!! WHAT A FUCKING SCAM HOLLYYY SHITTTT"

Every fucking time.
For someone who criticizes Rand for being 'shallow' or 'simplistic' you retards sure adhere to similar standards when interpreting her.
Should we also throw Marx in the fucking trashcan because his buddy Engels was supporting Marx' family financially?
Or should we throw Freud in the trashcan because he shared his bed with his aunt during his teen years due to poverty?

At the end of the day, you should realize that the reason why there's so much academic hate and malice towards Rand is because she strikes more than a nerve or two with her, arguably pretty bullshit (but intentionally bullshit), novels and works. She released them when the left and socialism were growing in strength in the US drastically, and caused immense butthurt, which lasts to this day, as always proven by ignorants who vehemently believe Rand, Rothbard, Nozick and so on are just 'phases' you're supposed to grow out of, DESPITE THE FACT THEY'RE SAYING THE SAME SHIT LOCKE, JEFFERSON AND THOREAU SAID;

You mean Bioshock.

Funny thing that, the libertarian paradise city in Bioshock actually worked fine until they found out about magic sea slugs granting superpowers to people.

>mfw I interned at the Ayn Rand Institute during college
>mfw I'm not even a libertarian
>mfw I espoused some basic free market bullshit and pretended like it was super profound to get in because I wanted to network in Washington DC
>mfw its pretty much a lobbying firm masquerading as some ideological think tank
>mfw most but not all think tanks are just lobbyists
>mfw most of Washington is lobbyists

lmao we're fucked

Those think tanks are still better at providing data and doing scientific research than American Universities are, though.
Also, saying the lobbying system is inherently wrong is like saying capitalism is inherently wrong.

Thoreau never said taxes should be abolished. Never impute any transcendentalist with any kind of Ranian economic thought, I don't want you tarnishing the school.

I don't disagree with that any of that, it's just funny the blatant corporate ties the place had while also acting like it is some scholarly institution. They would push nonsensical abstract ideas, ones that can't really be disproven, in the face of real research and arguments from opposing groups, just to keep up a facade of scholarship. It was horribly cringy to see them debate New America, a legitimate non-partisan think tank, when I was there.

It became less funny and more shocking when I started realizing that most think tanks are actually like this place.

Is that a metaphor for drugs?

>Those think tanks are still better at providing data and doing scientific research than American Universities are, though.
t. /pol/

nah it wasn't the sea slugs that did it, they just allowed Fontaine to gain enough economic power to threaten Andrew Ryan's control of rapture so he went mcWarlord on his ass forcing Fontaine to fake his own death while Ryan annexed his magic slug semen factory.

Fountaine then reemerged as atlas and started using leftist ideas like gibs and democracy to rile up the poor people who were dumb enough to think moving all the rich people to one place wouldn't knock some of em down to the greedy lazy underclass they hated so much.

plus the whole dictatorship and kidnapping children for forced labor didn't help.

the sea slugs fucking the sanity out of people was just gas on an already burning building rapture was just a big ancap meme

>I put a quarter in everything

I fucking love AnCaps. It's the only political ideology that can be refuted with nothing but retarded memes. Even the libertarians at least have a weak comeback against the muh roads argument

> Merely pretending to be retarded
Holy shit you're desperate.

200% mad

>It's the only political ideology that can be refuted with nothing but retarded memes.
Not even an an-cap my my god are you strawmanning the shit out of their ideology. Ancaps are laughing at you people.

Many places and times in history could be called an-cap.

royhalliday.home.mindspring.com/history.htm

>free market
>monopoly

I don't understand how someone can be this retarded.

Why do retarded leftshit pretend ancaps and objectivists don't absolutely hate each other?

Rand hated anarchists.

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