Comments on: He is Thirsty

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:14:30 +0000

Why does Free Market Man’s chin look like a huge pair of testicles?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:43:11 +0000

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.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:03:09 +0000

There’s a whole flash site centered around pretty much the same joke character: http://captaincapitalism.com/

By: Wes

Wes — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:04:14 +0000

Reminds me of a superhero/villain I thought up years ago. Captain Capitalist, arch-nemesis of The Lone Communist. Too funny.

By: Sirry

Sirry — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:39:04 +0000

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

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:31:51 +0000

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.

By: Kevin Brennan

Kevin Brennan — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:29:23 +0000

^Oops, typo. First line should say “nothing” instead of “enough”. My brain is playing tricks on me today!

By: Kevin Brennan

Kevin Brennan — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:27:43 +0000

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!

By: jed

jed — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:49:39 +0000

How can it be a ‘personality’ cult when shes dead?

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:37:01 +0000

Oops: syntax correction. Change the first sentence to “Actually, Ayn Rand did claim that giving to charity was immoral.”