@greg0879 And we all know what happened when he abandoned her philosophy. What has happened in America is that big corporations have hijacked our law makers to right laws for the sole purpose of ending their competition, often using very plausible and seemingly rational justifications in the way it is presented. Otherwise true capitalism would be prevailing over crony corporatism we currently see in America.
@FutureSpaceGuy Absolutely, what she was against is the Governments/IRS guns in our back doing it by force. This is what makes the philosophy of Altruism so evil is that they feel Good Love people become the tools to justify this level of immorality.
Every one seems to misunderstand what Rand really meant. She did not see anything wrong in helping others, but she thought it was wrong to help others if you did not want to, that you should not feel responsibility for others happiness. You are entitled to your own happiness, you are also responsible for it, and you should not expect others to help you achieve it.
Rand's greatest sin was trying to move her philosophy into the realms of economic policy; an area she had no educational discipline in or hands on experience with. 100% unregulated OTC derivatives reached the height of 595 Trillion in 2007, before the markets collapsed. Even her disciple, Greenspan, recanted on her economic ideology before the end.
chi·me·ra /kīˈmi(ə)rə/ not whatever the hell you said.
ShadeToSun 2 months ago
@greg0879 And we all know what happened when he abandoned her philosophy. What has happened in America is that big corporations have hijacked our law makers to right laws for the sole purpose of ending their competition, often using very plausible and seemingly rational justifications in the way it is presented. Otherwise true capitalism would be prevailing over crony corporatism we currently see in America.
MyITRcom 3 months ago
@FutureSpaceGuy Absolutely, what she was against is the Governments/IRS guns in our back doing it by force. This is what makes the philosophy of Altruism so evil is that they feel Good Love people become the tools to justify this level of immorality.
MyITRcom 3 months ago
Every one seems to misunderstand what Rand really meant. She did not see anything wrong in helping others, but she thought it was wrong to help others if you did not want to, that you should not feel responsibility for others happiness. You are entitled to your own happiness, you are also responsible for it, and you should not expect others to help you achieve it.
FutureSpaceGuy 3 months ago
Rand's greatest sin was trying to move her philosophy into the realms of economic policy; an area she had no educational discipline in or hands on experience with. 100% unregulated OTC derivatives reached the height of 595 Trillion in 2007, before the markets collapsed. Even her disciple, Greenspan, recanted on her economic ideology before the end.
greg0879 6 months ago