Obvious answer:
Mahatma Gandhi.
Obvious follow-up comment:
I could nor would want to want to live like either of them, but empty materialism and emphasising all the failures of the human psyche seem to have little to recommend themselves to anyone with intellectual pretensions.
From a religious perspective I have less in common with Gandhi than Rand - I am like her an atheist (US Republican party supporters who fawn upon her memory - please note! None of your Christian Conservative illogic. She at least understood what Christ was all about! Check out Matthew ch. 19 vv. 20-24 again!).
But I do not personally need luxury for its own sake, and if we all aspire to live like that human existence as we know it will be finished within a century.
Anyway given the corporatocracy and the political and economic control that it has over the entire planet, the myth of the rugged individualist is just that - a myth!
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