MEDIA LOSER: Yaron Brook Ayn Rand Institute chairman Yaron Brook is a popular figure in internet media whose debates take in a lot of YouTube views. On Wednesday, he appeared on The Majority Report and made a comment about the collapsed Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida that got attention of a different kind. On the podcast, the dyed-in-the-wool libertarian told an incredulous Sam Seder that the condo association “made a bad decision” and rightly "suffered the consequences of it." Brooks said that in a truly free market, the company that insured the now collapsed building would have hired its own inspector to ensure the building was structurally sound. “Now, in the world we live in today, they don’t,” said Brook, “Because they rely on the government inspector.” Seder responded by saying government and private inspectors had expressed concerns about the structural integrity of the building. “The private owners of that building made the decision not to fix it.” “Then why are we worried about it?” asked Brook. “They made a decision and they suffered the consequences.” “Because there’s a hundred and fifty dead people,” Seder replied. “People who made a decision,” said Brook, “Who made a bad decision and suffer the consequences of it." "I’m not justifying the building collapsing. I’m saying that people make decisions" he told the somewhat stunned Seder. "What you want is for the people who make the decision to suffer [or] to benefit from the consequences of their actions," Last night, those consequences were a shift from rescue to recovery in Surfside, with around 80 people still unaccounted for. |