Ayn Rand, Progress, and Silicon Valley with Jason Crawford and Yaron Brook
b'This episode was recorded in front of a live audience in January 2020 at Ayn Rand Con. Erik interviewed Jason Crawford and Yaron Brook.
Jason (@jasoncrawford) writes about the history of technology and industry at Roots of Progress.
Yaron (@yaronbrook) is host of The Yaron Brook Show.
They discuss:
- What can destroy \\u2014\\xa0or save \\u2014\\xa0Silicon Valley.
- What Rand would say about Silicon Valley if she could see it today.
- How to reconcile egalitarianism and meritocracy.
- How to make her ideas more mainstream.
- Objectivism, libertarianism, and individualism.
- Progress as a human achievement and how to appreciate it.
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