I've never read Ayn Rand's books.

More prosperity provides the surplus to afford being environmental. Unfree countries tend to be much more environmentally destructive, because the people are impoverished.

> there is way more to life than making money

I never wrote otherwise. You're making things up.

What's a bummer is that Walter is a smart and talented engineer, yet has a very stubborn and out of touch economic perspective that is at least half a century expired.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright