I am an INTJ personality type so it follows that I am of Libertarian philosophy. Unfortunately for people of my type the laws of nature work against us as the normal distribution ensures that “individualists” will always be outnumbered by “socialists”: I suppose that human genes must distribute this way to ensure it’s own survival by limiting the amount of individualists as we are social animals.
Anyway, most people in this blog would probably understand intuitively that individualists are primarily the types that have always and will always be the group to lead humanity forward in terms of most important matters of progress and innovation. The irony is that the rest of society benefits the most from the work of the this minority group; unfortunately, there also exists the truly and inherently evil types who benefit themselves by limiting the ability of individualists to pull humanity forward by (ironically indeed!) persuading the rest of humanity to give them the power to do so.
I naturally distrust any person – usually of religious or political bent – who comes to me and claims their goal in life is to help me. My thought is always: “Don’t you have your own problems to take care of…and I prefer to solve my own problems in my own way, anyway, thank you.”
So to solve the problems that I (and we) are given today and henceforth for the forseeable future I am indeed choosing to “Go Galt” by retiring early (am 38 y.o.) from my relatively high paying job (+500m/yr) and investing in a mix of investments that will ensure that I do not exceed the income point where the progressive tax system begins to become truly nonsensical. I own my cars and only have a small mortgage (tax benefits!) so will live a peacefully content and quiet life in my personal Galt’s Gulch while I have physically prime yrs remaining rather than toiling away these great yrs for the nearly complete benefit of others…I know – How selfish!
