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It seems that you have no idea what you're talking about.) Her philosophy is sound and so are her principles of free market economy, while, perhaps, her plot
by dschiptsov 11y ago
It seems that you have no idea what you're talking about.)
Her philosophy is sound and so are her principles of free market economy, while, perhaps, her plot is idealized and naive and some characters too sophisticated to be true.)
Edit: I have tried to explain it better in a separate comment.
Hint: this is a fiction based on philosophy, not a philosophic treatise based on fiction.
- andrepd 11y agoI don't think her philosophy is sound. You cannot advocate unregulated capitalism in a society where people don't start on equal footing.
- BinaryAcid 11y agoIt's intrinsic to existence that no two people start on equal footing. One will be smarter, another will be a harder worker. Your rule would mean no form of capitalism is permissible at any point. I think at some point parents must have stopped informing their children that life isn't fair and deal with it.
- andrepd 11y agoThat's very easy to swallow when you are born on the upper end of the scale. Not so much when you are born to a single mother on a Flint MI ghetto or when you are born gay in Nigeria, or a girl on war-torn Sudan. Just because you are comfortable on middle-upper class doesn't mean you can't be objective about this things. That some kids are born into wealthy families and some are born in sub-Saharan Africa and forced to mine minerals for the former's iPad until they are 15 and keel over is undeniably wrong. But it's what arises from capitalism.
- andrenth 11y agoYes, because there's so much free market in sub-Saharan Africa.
- dschiptsov 11y agoEquality does not exist. It is a mental concept created by communist demagogues. The evolution process which produced everything including our minds is based on generic variation and difference in reproductive success. Equal rights for by definition inequal beings is what smart guys have tried to put into constitutions.
- chippy 11y agoWhat's with the ending parenthesis? ".)" ? I've noticed it in another one or two of your comments. Is it used in another language? What does it signify?
- dschiptsov 11y agoMinimalistic "smile", or emoji as it is called nowadays- a way of expressing emotions. Think of it as a Zen-like essential minimalism.
- jjoonathan 11y agoSo you're a libertarian and an emoji hipster? Isn't that a bit much?
- chippy 11y agothanks. I will keep an eye out for it elsewhere!
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoRand (along with a couple of other women like Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Paterson) was instrumental in introducing a lot of people to the free market ethos, but no. She was never a good philosopher, nor a scholar. Her works are probably best understood as the total antithesis of Marxism-Leninism, the crossfire of which she was caught up in at the time until her emigration to the United States. Rand is a relic and has largely been repudiated by far superior scholars (such as Murray N. Rothbard) who have since made most of her work deprecated.
- dang 11y ago> It seems that you have no idea what you're talking about. This is a form of calling names, which the HN guidelines ask you not to do: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Your comment would be much better with that sentence taken out.