Thanks guys. It's hard to draw a line between different flavors of capitalism. I've been trying for about four years and each time I got shouted down as being a so*ialist. Each time I picked myself up, dusted myself off, and tried to learn more. Solving the problem has been a big onion to peel, but I think this morning I finally got to the center when I stumbled on that vid. All it took was typing the right words into Google. The magic combination was "Ayn Rand game theory". Bingo.
In previous intellectual debates wih Ayn Rand supporters I dug deeper and always hit a brick wall. They had scientific proof in the book "The Selfish Gene".
I can't express how relieved I was to finally see a video from the author and he had a simple explanation -- they are using the book wrong.
Whew.
Second to that experience was the time I called a Soviet sociologist and told him that I think Ayn Rand is a Soviet agent. He immediately told me, almost reflexually, that I was a conspiracy theorist. Being called a conspiracy theorist by a Soviet sociologist is kind of an honor.
