Posted on 02/02/2019 2:07:03 PM PST by huckfillary
Officer Barbrady will not be wishing her Happy Birthday, LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j56IiLqZ9U
Old. O-l-l-l-l-l-ld. Bent over old.
It epitomizes the results of imposing socialism into the workplace where capitalism was the guiding principle previously.
The successful car company succeeds under its founder but when he dies and leaves it to his worthless, shiftless kids, they decide to change the economic model that drives the business from capitalism to socialism.
In the process thy run the company into the ground and it goes out of business. It is a perfect example of what happens when these politicians like AO-C want to institute the same system in the US. It will fail and fail big time.
Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is one of my all-time favorite books. There are so many things to learn from it. I've read it three times and discover that there is more to it every time I re-read it.
IMHO, a current example is the electric car...
Don’t have anything to add that isn’t in my tag line.
1) The Anti-Dog Eat Dog Rule - This regulation required highly efficient businesses to reduce their efficiency to be more in line with the least efficient businesses (and WAS enforceable); and,
2) The Equalization of Opportunity Bill - This Bill (which eventually became law and was applied to Hank Rearden's multiple businesses) required someone who owned more than one business to give all but one of their businesses to other people, so as to "equalize the opportunity" of business ownership.
Happy Birthday, Ayn!!
I like Francisco’s Money Speech.
BMFL
With looters taking over the democratic party leadership, we need Ayn now more than ever. Prepare for confiscation in 2021.
ANTHEM is my favorite. Oh and it didn’t hurt that RUSH put it to music with 2112.
‘Her atheism is wrong but she gets almost everything else right.’
really...? how about this...
‘An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn).
Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her own body?”..’
‘She rattled my cage and provoked a crisis in my thinking and for that I am grateful to her.’
right; she didn’t believe in God, which of course is meaningless as it is merely her own opinion (and mine), but she does believe in murder, which of course does matter, because, well, people die...
We, The Living is her best novel, IMHO
I belong to that select few who actually read the entire John Galt speech. Bow before me.
I value Rand up to a point, but I cannot accept her atheistic stance: If there is no external, superior moral absolute, then on what basis can she make any moral evaluation?
She implicitly, if not explicitly, argues that her philosophy (via John Galt) is ultimately more morally valid. Why? And why would it matter?
If there is no God, then nothing matters.
Okay, she was wrong on abortion apparently. But if she were still alive, I’ll bet she would be susceptible to arguments based on the personhood of the unborn baby now that we know — thanks to science — that a fetus is a lot more like a person than a blob of tissue. She had an open, honorable mind and would grapple with contrary evidence, I think.
‘If there is no external, superior moral absolute, then on what basis can she make any moral evaluation?’
you can’t imagine a situation in which ethical behavior is possible without reference to sourcing from an unknowable entity which is postulated to exist outside of time and space restraints...?
‘If there is no God, then nothing matters.’
that’s an opinion you have no empirical nor epistemological basis for making...
I think better examples would be windmills and solar cells.
Why does your link go to The Artful Dilettante “about” page?
There is so much in the book that is relevant to today's politics.
Rand was prescient in her vision of America of the future when it was written in 1957.
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