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> when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing This part alone shows how much superficial BS this is. You
by santacluster 12y ago
> when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing
This part alone shows how much superficial BS this is.
You cannot produce anything without using the earth's resources. They do not naturally belong to any man.
So it's either "take what you want, by force, and fuck everyone else", or we find some peaceful way to share those resources amongst each other. Preferably without terminally destroying them for future generations.
Yes, the latter is done through a huge variety of intricate social constructs, and all of them are corrupt to some degree, because such is mankind.
But the only society in which you do not need permission from your fellow men is one in which the majority of the population has the status of serfs.
- notahacker 12y agoTo put things into perspective for those not familiar with the book, the character Francisco is supposed to one of the world's richest men having inherited a mining fortune from his conquistador ancestors. According to Rand's back-story, it's all down to the family lineage passing on genius from one generation to another and nothing at all to do with working slaves to death, as actually tended to happen in South American mines. It's not documented whether his ancestors asked permission from the indigenous population. Atlas Shrugged is basically the reductio ad absurdum version of saner arguments for capitalism.