This episode was recorded in front of a live audience in January 2020 at Ayn Rand Con. Erik interviewed Jason Crawford and Yaron Brook.

Jason (@jasoncrawford) writes about the history of technology and industry at Roots of Progress.

Yaron (@yaronbrook) is host of The Yaron Brook Show.

They discuss:

- What can destroy — or save — Silicon Valley.

- What Rand would say about Silicon Valley if she could see it today.

- How to reconcile egalitarianism and meritocracy.

- How to make her ideas more mainstream.

- Objectivism, libertarianism, and individualism.

- Progress as a human achievement and how to appreciate it.

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