[DividesByZero]

For someone who paints themselves as some sort of Randian superman, he sure uses the words of collective action and altruism a lot.

"It’s paradoxical, but the less you focus on your own happiness and focus on others’, the happier you’ll be."

John Galt indeed.

[icebraining]

He's an anarcho-capitalist, not an objectivist. The two groups often disagree on many things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_and_Objectivism

[jacoblyles]

Outside of Ayn Rand novels, collective action is necessary for the livelihood of free peoples. Old-fashioned civic virtue used to fill the roles that the state usurped (see Albert Jay Nock's "Our Enemy, The State").

I have a soft spot in my heart for Ayn Rand, but her moral system would be a poor foundation for a free people (which I am here using as a euphemism for market anarchy).