Jesus Christ.
Edit: The full debate is here. I highly recommend listening to it.
Yaron Brook is the chair of the Ayn Rand Institute - he's very well spoken, has very good debate skills, and is highly intelligent. I can easily see how he would run circles around most people. But this is where Sam Seder's brilliance shines through. He is also well spoken, has good debate skills, and is intelligent. He was able to counter each point Brook made and further the conversation till the natural end.
The debate was civil and w/o any insults while still being challenging and intellectually stimulating. So completely unlike the usual online debate-bros. One of the things I tried to do while listening was pause it and try to form a counter to Brook on my own w/o listening to what Seder said. I needed to take far more time than Sam did and my answers were nowhere near as precise or well-articulated or counterattacking.
LOL he's literally the chairman of a Ayn Rand Institute.
Ayn Rand would have lavishly written a scene where a bunch of selfish but somehow not the right kind of selfish condo dwellers were crushed to death because they all tried to share their money instead of paying rent to a landlord or something.
If Ayn Rand didn't exist, capitalists would have invented her. Her entire purpose is to give capitalists a "moral" claim to their wealth like the Divine Right of Kings.