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(161 votes, average: 4.59 out of 5)
September 15th, 2007 at 6:57 am
reminds me of superman for some reason, i thinks it eother the costume, or the dickery that he is doing
September 16th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Hooray for communism! I think. Maybe?
September 18th, 2007 at 1:02 am
Full of win.
September 21st, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Heh… he was reading Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.
I’m not sure he exactly follows her ideas but, hey, pretty close.
Incidentally, have you actually read that book? I enjoyed the writing, if not all the ideas.
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:13 am
My Ayn Rand experience is limited to the first half of The Fountainhead. I was reading it as a part of some scholarship contest put on my people who call themselves “Obejectivists”. It was about 500 pages longer than my patience at the time, which is probably a good thing, because nerdy high school guys are susceptible to Ms. Rand’s “philosophy”.
I guess that nowadays kids will inoculated against such tangents by their time in Rapture.
October 7th, 2007 at 11:00 am
You know, Rand was not opposed to charity. Nor are most free-marketers. This is more of a nietzhe argument. Leave Rand, and the objectivists out of it!
October 17th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Actually, did Ayn Rand claim that giving to charity was immoral. Apparently, the victim is the person you’re giving the charity to. Objectivists are just members of the personality cult built up around her and will agree to anything she said, no matter how outrageous and ridiculous the claim.
October 17th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Oops: syntax correction. Change the first sentence to “Actually, Ayn Rand did claim that giving to charity was immoral.”
November 4th, 2007 at 4:49 am
How can it be a ‘personality’ cult when shes dead?
November 4th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Huh? Free market principles say enough of the sort. In fact, part of the general concept is that with more money going to individuals, charities will prosper as more people are able to donate more money to solve relevant social issues. The only part of the comic that made any sense for me was the Ayn Rand portion, even if I do love her books. I generally like these comics, but this one just confused the heck out of me because it was so off-target!
November 4th, 2007 at 11:29 am
^Oops, typo. First line should say “nothing” instead of “enough”. My brain is playing tricks on me today!
November 6th, 2007 at 7:31 am
To keep this brief- as I thumb through Rand’s news letter the intellectual activist, she very CLEARLY states..
“I don’t discourage charity whatsoever- I encourage it; so long as the charitable giver does not destroy himself in the process”
Please, don’t act like a shill, and confuse Rand with Nietzsche like everyone else does.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
What does everyone have against Nietzsche? He just saw charity as a means of exercising your power over them. He also saw material charity as a sign of spiritual poverty. Confusing Ayn Rand and Nietzsche is impossible for people who know anything about the meta-ethics of either person. One of Nietzsche’s major ideas was that morality is a human illusion created to control people into being happy cogs in the machine of civilization (Morality is much worse than television in this sense. If you consider yourself moral, you have plugged in and checked out more than any TV junkie). Ayn Rand believed that moral truths were empirically discoverable and objectively true.
And if you think Nietzsche was a Nazi, please never express an opinion again
March 24th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Reminds me of a superhero/villain I thought up years ago. Captain Capitalist, arch-nemesis of The Lone Communist. Too funny.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:03 pm
There’s a whole flash site centered around pretty much the same joke character: http://captaincapitalism.com/
May 29th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Objectivism says nothing in detriment to charitable acts so long as that charity is voluntary. The entire idea of objectivism, at least what I’ve taken from it, is that motivation and ideals should be intrinsic, self-taught. If such an ideal is to help people who can’t help themselves, then so be it. The fact remains that it is still what the individual in question *wants* to do. That is the “Virtue of Selfishness.” A lot of people get the ideas of Objectivism confused with blind, heartless capitalism. Yes, many of those who engage in the larcenous activities of modern industry could be considered “objectivists,” but that isn’t the spirit of the ideal.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Why does Free Market Man’s chin look like a huge pair of testicles?
February 24th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Hahaha, Its like my friend Dave
February 26th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
This is stupid. Free market capitalism actually supports private charity, since it's better for people to voluntarily support others in ways they want to, rather than be forced to give up their money by a giant bureacracy.
May 18th, 2009 at 9:35 am
nice
May 28th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
I guess I can be consider radical free market supporter as anarchocapitalist. PersonalyI believe that charity is an important element of volontary human interaction. As free market is volontary human interation therefore the charity is important element of free market. While being important however it cannot replace the other interactions from practical resons (the economic calculation). Communes can be part of anarchy/free market as long as participating in them is striktly volotary (anyway – the familly is sort of small communes).
I don’t know objectivism very well but AFAIK they held very different opinion on this matter . It’s perfectly ok as long as they not try to force me to use my resources in way I want (for example sharing them with others).
As far as “virtue of selfishness” is concerned. IMHO the original use of this metaphor is that on free market the selfishness want of making profit plays along so-called social interest as the only way of making profit on free market is satisfing consumer wants.