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The trader principle

Dealing with others by voluntary exchange of value for value.

Rand's principle for relationships of every kind: neither seek nor grant the unearned, and deal with people as traders, giving value for value by mutual consent. She applied it to friendship and love as well as to business.

Read it in Rand’s words

The Virtue of Selfishness ("The Objectivist Ethics"); Atlas Shrugged

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