[Am-info] Ayn Rand Institute?

[Hans Reiser]

madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:

>In <3C950726.FEF39C56@attglobal.net>, on 03/17/02 at 04:14 PM,
>   "John J. Urbaniak" <jjurban@attglobal.net> said:
>
>>Anyone heard of the Ayn Rand Institute, in Marina Del Rey, CA?
>>
>
>http://www.aynrand.org/ari_home.html
>
>Ayn Rand worte several novels in the 30's and 40's, with the theme of one
>man triumphing against the "collective".    She was anti-communistic and
>pro-captialist in the extreme.  Those who run the Ann Rand Institute are
>even further on the fringe.
>
>>Is it a Microsoft-supported organization?
>>
>
>I doubt it.  I doubt gates has any idea who Ayn Rand was since there's no
>profit in it.  Though with their philosophy I can see them backing bill
>gates as a self-made man against the greedy masses who are out to destroy
>all he has built.   I doubt they care much about all the businesses he
>destroyed and crimes he committed building his empire.
> 
>
>Mark
>
Ayn Rand is rumored to be popular at Microsoft.  

It is worth understanding that Ayn Rand was from St. Petersburg, Russia, 
and this makes her views regarding the masses attacking the elites 
rather understandable.  Libertarianism has always failed to perceive 
that most markets are not fully competitive but semi-competitive, that 
monopolies are no better than government controlled markets, and that 
free market economic theories are only a first approximation to 
describing reality.

Hans