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> I work for your company, you pay me X salary. And if I don't work for your company, and I can't find other work, I starve. It's hardly win-win if one side o

• TheOtherHobbes 9y ago
  If that's happening to you, presumably it's your fault for not winning harder? "Objectivism" is just another name for narcissism. If you're not a winner, the narcissist's view is that you deserve whatever bad things happen to you. Narcissism is wonderful for short-term gains, but an absolute disaster for long-term stability and growth. Which is not a surprise because empathy is an established reality, not just in human behaviour but in animal behaviour, with straightforward evolutionary benefits. You have to go quite a long way back down the evolutionary tree to lose empathy. If Rand and her acolytes want to live down there I suppose we can respect their choice. But it doesn't mean it's a good choice, an intelligent decision, or one that's going to lead to better outcomes in the future.
  • Danihan 9y ago
    Empathy is a trade-off, like most things: - If you hold too much empathy for those who would destroy society, society will weaken. - If you hold too little empathy for those who would support society, society will weaken. Farmers don't tend to have much empathy for invasive weeds or pests growing in their crops. I believe Ayn Rand saw communists in a similar light. Of course, that is all based on the presumption that society should continue in the first place. Feel free to replace "society" with "your family," or "your company."