According to Ayn Rand and Objectivism, individualism is the belief that nothing is as important or special as one's own life, joy, and well-being. It’s important that everyone puts themselves before others. It is also fundamentally important for all societies to have individualism because it makes people strive to better themselves. Without it, we would all just be drones in collectivistic world, and it would look like Equality’s home. Because of Individualism, things such as capitalism exist because people always want to better themselves and become greater than the next person. I think this because in Anthem, all Equality was trying to do was free himself from the shackles of his totalitarian society. When he was liberated by escaping and