• malaph@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    There’s at least a grain of truth in that book. Try starting a business or producing something.

    Look at domestic attempts to mine lithium or building semiconductor plants. Try building anything here.

    “When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you. . . you may know that your society is doomed.”

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      That’s how you trick the gullible, start with a bit of truth they can understand and then jump off the deep end into lunacy.

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        1 year ago

        You can agree with some principles of a work and reject others. What parts of her philosophy do you find to be lunacy?

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          The premise that some people are just better than everyone else is not intelligent. Valuing a person’s worth as a human by measuring their productivity is genocidal.

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            Some people are just better in terms of being productive. I don’t see how that’s debatable. The question is just if you let those people keep they’re outsized earnings or you forcibly redistribute them.

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              I’m going to respond so hopefully you grow.

              Productivity is difficult to measure or define. Intelligence is similar. Regardless, neither of these things define value in a human life. Some people love to cook, some are great at reading comic books. One might be really good at watching TV. In the end, your preference for what is seen as valuable comes to your preference. There’s nothing objective about it. More concretely, in many engineering jobs great engineers are promoted into management positions for which they are ill suited. They make more money, are they not definitionally more productive? Yet the company and team is worse off.

              As for your question, Rand is not subtle about her thoughts.