Words Of Wisdom From Ayn Rand

This is a very important topic, so please do not take this video lightly.

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Please take a few moments and listen to these important words from Ayn Rand.; they just may change your life.

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[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.

[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.

[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!

[DoctorLawyerWhatever]

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

[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.