Actually, Joe, She shows more insight into the capitalistic system than most who people live it.
"She holds up the accumulation of material wealth as the height of virtue."
Wrong, she states that you should take care of yourself first, then you have the power, if you choose, to take care of others. With out the self, how would you take care of others?
"Conservatives believe in more than just amassing wealth and gratifying the self. We do not believe that voluntary self-sacrifice is an evil. We believe in charity."
With out wealth how will you provide for your charities?
Voluntary self-sacrifice is not one of the things she addresses in this book, and that would cover the "where are the children" comments that keep coming up in this thread.
"We do not believe that voluntary self-sacrifice is an evil."
Voluntary...VOLUNTARY, remember this word! What about forced self-sacrifice Joe, at the point of our Governments guns...is that okay too?
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I'm pretty sure objectivists do see self-sacrifice as bad. They have a problem with the very idea of altruism. This is why they are antagonistic to Christianity.