Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on Ayn Rand, art, and making money

http://www.fordhallforum.org/wales.html
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales addresses how Objectivist philosophy guides his nonprofit work.

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[nagee76]

Jimmy Wales hits the nail on its head - do things not because you are forced/mandated to do it or because it makes you look good in the eyes of people, judging you -but because you want to and you have a purpose to do so.

I am thrilled that an Objectivist is behind Wikipedia - hats off Jimmy Wales.

[ronrutherford]

Don, I noticed in your critique of Rand, much like virtually all critiques I read about her, is stunningly lacking any real information or insight into what is wrong with objectivism... just extremely broad and blanketed complaints that don't really say anything. Do you expect to convince people who are actually "objective" with such a method?

[eggory]

So wikipedia is non-compulsory, as opposed to what? Are people not acting voluntarily when they sign up to get payed?

[Gildyshowss]

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[Gildyshowss]

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[jaketothemax1000]

Finally someone who actually understands objectivism.

[RnBramwell]

@Konform2zoidberg Your statement, "She held self-interest, and thus profit, as inherently moral.", is presented in the context of making *money*. It implies the first cannot occur without the second, which is a misunderstanding of her case. Ayn Rand had no issue with charity where the donor was able to see a value achieved via the recipient. Seeing that value may be a non-monetary profit, of which she would approve. Her rule was that charity must not be self-sacrificial. Wales is fine!

[lnqusitor]

@fab006 l agree, you are as educated as you need to be.

[fab006]

@lnqusitor Well, I am as educated as I need to be - I don't read to be "educated", I read to improve my life. I don't feel any need at this time to read something that tells me I'm inable to judge it right or wrong (that is, to choose whether to believe it or not), and either way the faculty I use to understand what is written (and that was presumably used to come up with it in the first place - the mind) doesn't exist anyway.

[lnqusitor]

@fab006 Behaviorism is not a "counter-argument" it is a clinical science used by doctors with 70+ years of empirical evidence and you believe it is wrong and some extreme relatively obscure philosophy correct instead and you think you are the educated one for this.

[fab006]

@lnqusitor Well, you are probably right. The thing is that if I already know the truth and have already validated it by introspection and observation, I don't need to read and answer every piece of fiction that is offered as a counter-argument.