#457 – Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

10775.051 - 10804.428 Jennifer Burns

So, I mean, the big flaw is that it's justified through a fictional world. You know, it's not justified through reference to the real world. You know, it's not empirical in a way. And Rand herself would say that she's not writing about things how they are, but how they should be. And so that idealism just really undermines it as a mechanism to understand where we're actually living.