The Moral Case for Individual Rights
Ayn Rand developed Objectivism, a philosophy emphasizing reason, rational self-interest, and individual rights. She argued that people need freedom to think, produce, and trade, and that government should protect their rights rather than direct economic life. Her case for capitalism is moral as well as economic: voluntary exchange respects each person as an end in themselves. The featured 1967 lecture, published by the Ayn Rand Institute, develops this argument in her own words.
For Rand, capitalism is justified by individual rights and voluntary cooperation, not only by the wealth it produces.
You can see this idea in everyday life: