Need help finding a video.

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Sailing, sorry if this is in the wrong area.

It was an interview of either Rothbard, Hayek or Von Mises, where he explained how individual ambition actually benefits society.

I was reminded of the interview after hearing Obama's propaganda filled commencement speech at OSU.

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I wonder if you emailed Lew Rockwell or whomever has an article right now on his site if they might be able to think of the one you want.

I don't know the one you want, but a lot of people have said that.

if you can think of key words used in it you might try youtube.

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These two works demonstrate the increasing importance in Hayek's thought of
the unplanned nature of society. The institutions of the economy and of social life
are indeed the results of human action, he argues, but are not the products of
human design and planning. On the contrary, the institutions which shape
society arise quite spontaneously when men meet and trade together. The law,
such as the law of contract, which allows people to do this is essentially
discovered, not made by wise men: we discover what will work, and abandon
what does not. The socialist assumption that we can scrap these laws, which are
general ones applying to everyone, and move to a command economy is, in the
title of Hayek's attack on it, The Fatal Conceit. Property, contract, honesty and
other values are ingrained in us because they work; they allow a free society to
operate. It is a conceit to suppose that we can replace these universal values with
a council of wise men who will tell us how to act in every situation and who will
direct us individually for the achievement of some social or economic plan. The
socialist ideals of sharing and effort towards common goals may appeal to our
instincts, since they were obviously important in our hunting and tribal past. But
they cannot work in the large societies of today, which have grown far beyond
the scope of any one mind to control.

from write up of Hayek, I'm thinking he may be the source you are looking for, although not this write up: http://www.adamsmith.org/sites/default/files/images/uploads/publications/hayek-his-contribution-ed-4.pdf

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“Yet there can be no doubt that the discovery of a better use of things or of one’s own capacities is one of the greatest contributions that an individual can make in our society to the welfare of his fellows and that it is by providing the maximum opportunity for this that a free society can become so much more prosperous than others. The successful use of this entrepreneurial capacity (and, in discovering the best use of our abilities, we are all entrepreneurs) is the most highly rewarded activity in a free society, while whoever leaves to others the task of finding some useful means of employing his capacities must be content with a smaller reward.”
http://www.myreferenceframe.com/best-positive-inspirational-motivational-quotes/yet-there-can-be-no-doubt-that-the-discovery-of-a-better-use-of-things-or-of-ones-own-capacities-is-one-of-the-greatest-contributions-that-an-individual-can-make-in-our-society-to-the-welfa/#.UYhTrqK87To