Words Of Wisdom From Ayn Rand

[mustang607]

I was told that the free market keeps failing and government needs to come in and fix it. With all this nation destroying debt they are accumulating, I see that they have been doing a lot of "fixing." Anyone know when they will be done?

[54nomore]

This is so well said, and is one of the best tributes to one of the 20th century's greatest philosophers. Great job!

[MrPhlux]

Dismissing Rand's atheism, and only focusing upon her concepts of a self-sufficient ego, achievement, and the proper consideration of money, the brilliance of her observations regarding motivation works. The major flaw I find in Rand's view is her utter dismissal of the less gifted, the less capable, the less accomplished; these individuals also deserve to reach their capacities through their own effort, however limited, and to find value in their lives, which is their right, as well.

[SpazzzDog]

But who are the producers? The CEOs at the top making $100 million or the people who are actually building and designing our society? The working man is the real producer. How much will the working man be willing to take before the working man decides to shrug?

[BeanMeister22]

It is not the working man who is the real producer, it is the person who designed the factory, then got the money to build it, then started up the production lines, then hired the working man to do certain tasks that result in a product. Think about it .Without that producer, the working man would not have a job.

BTW, I am the working man. I spent 8 years climbing steel in the shipyards, 10 as an operator in an oil refinery, now I work with explosives.

When the working man shrugs, he starves.

[SpazzzDog]

Who builds the factories? Who runs the production lines? Without the working men of the world the CEOs and Presidents of the world wouldn't have their jobs. When a singular CEO shrugs, he starves too or becomes just another working man. Working men as a collective can strike just as the industrialists in Atlas did. The world would suffer more if that happened. Even if only 10% of working men went on strike in one day the economic engine would grind to an instant halt. Now that's real power!

[BeanMeister22]

@SpazzzDog

You're confusing labor and producer. Labor is manpower, unless it is a one man operation and the person doing the work is also the owner of the company. Additionally you are also mistaken about that 10% figure. Since I already told you about my work history, you know that I'm very familiar with big industry. Everywhere I have worked, it would take between 40% and 50% to make a difference. Up to that point the loss of manpower could be handled with overtime and schedule changes.

[DoctorLawyerWhatever]

@SpazzzDog Without the designers of factories, the creators of companies, the employee would not know what to build, or how to build it.

[dumbass65]

borderlands rule

[RandyWayneFricke]

The usurpers have to go. All government is corrupt. It's time for it all to go. The car industry too. By now we should have cars that either get 100 miles to the gallon or run on hydrogen. We went from horse and buggy to (supposedly) putting men on the moon in less than 100 years. It took evolution 800,000 years alone to go from sticks and stones to spoons and forks. Think we had help? The point is, the same bloodlines have been perfecting this system for thousands and thousands of years.

[Roannepur]

Yes, this goverment is corrupt or did they corrupt goverment? Well, I still think we should keep the police, the courts, and the millitary. Y'know for defending indiviual rights, from force external, or even internal.

[zahir13]

Without going into details, Ayn Rand saved my life. She also had some very fine ideas. But she also looked at the world with a distorted lens, and her followers tend to copy some of her worst personality traits--arrogance, an extreme "Us vs Them" mentality, binary thinking, a taste for condemning others rather than listening to them, etc. She also reduced complex issues to not simpler issues but simplistic ones.

[BeanMeister22]

I think what I find most helpful and uplifting from Ayn Rand, is the idea that accomplishment and skill should be rewarded and honored, rather than be punished.

Over the years, I've worked with way too many lazy people, who barely did their fair share, let alone did any extra to help out the department. I think that laziness has been rewarded for far too long, and if a person is capable of working, but they would rather take a handout instead, then they need a wake up call in their life.

[zahir13]

True enough, but that is hardly a good reason to let anyone starve, nor to condemn gays as mentally ill, nor to de-regulate business until the short-sighted and greedy (as opposed to simply self-interested) wreck things, etc. Rand's personal life was a good example of how she herself was a failure as a friend and spouse.

[Sam26100]

Wonderful video, thank you for thinking objectively

[skitzostudios]

An interesting message. History shows us time and again that when too few possess all, the oppressed rise up and kill them. Unless checked, the cycle begins anew.

[BeanMeister22]

I lost at least 4 subscribers over this video. Oh well, to some people freedom of speech only applies if they agree with the speech:)

[Objectivist2112]

Your main page states that all your videos are satire. Is this one? If I were a subscriber of yours, and you did this out of satire, I would not leave you because I do not believe in free speech- I would leave you because you are a fool.

[Objectivist2112]

Apon watching this a second time, I am more inclined to think you were serious with this. If so, please accept my apologies for my last post. If is WAS satire- you still suck! :)

[BeanMeister22]

I hope by now you realize that my free speech remark was directed to all those people who want to be slaves to the Government; there are a lot of them around here.

Even though my channel is satire, this topic is no laughing matter. And I do understand that my serious videos may have a tendency to be lumped in with my Bigfoot and redneck videos, I assure you that I mean every word of this video; or I would not have posted it.

[Objectivist2112]

Then please accept my apology. I agree that it is a very serious issue. I get very passionate about it, obviously! Might I suggest a "this one's serious" note of some sort? And you don't suck! :-)

[BeanMeister22]

No apology needed☺

[WORRO01]

Very very good video my Friend. 5*'s!!

[euripideesshreds]

Perhaps this is another reason that the wisdom of God is everlasting, and the wisdom of men is eventually passing away . A kind and poignant historical note ... Thank you.

[kaosboy13]

The entire time you were quoting the book, I had to think of the game Bioshock, which debatably was derived from it.

The game is about a man who made a society where scientists and artists could have free reign without consequence, and the horrors that resulted from free will, immoral and unchecked.

[blackturtleshow]

Interesting passage, but I'm thinking that there might be a problem with defining producers and differentiating them from the looters. Conquest doesn't have to be achieved through use of physical force. Legal conquest is just an orderly, non-violent means of stealing from the producers most of the time!

[Prototype87]

How much force do I need to get this wealth?

I'd carry people on my shoulders, but I getting too old for that and I have a bad back.

[JoeFielding72]

That was wicked. What you shared with me makes lots of since. I hope you share more incite with us like that. I hope you have a great night my friend. I look forward to your next video. God bless you and your family.