Thread: The Real Causes of Income Inequality

Originally Posted by 9aces

Hypocrite? Only if you don't understand what she was trying to tell you. Which apparently you don't. You really liked one of those statements, at least until you found out who said it, I told you to look up the story of the 20th Century Motor Company, did you? That's a story you need to listen to, perhaps you'll learn some more.

The bible is not to be worshiped either. If you read it, you'll find some lessons in it as well, if you simply think, as opposed to just believe what someone told you to think.

The key word....is "think".

It's very simple for deep minds.
Ayn Rand was telling everybody that manipulating people to do productive things is good.
And the manipulator takes all the credit.
The problem is that in today's world people are manipulated to do worthless sh!t.

Originally Posted by 9aces

Hypocrite? Only if you don't understand what she was trying to tell you. Which apparently you don't. You really liked one of those statements, at least until you found out who said it, I told you to look up the story of the 20th Century Motor Company, did you? That's a story you need to listen to, perhaps you'll learn some more.

The bible is not to be worshiped either. If you read it, you'll find some lessons in it as well, if you simply think, as opposed to just believe what someone told you to think.

The key word....is "think".

Are you stating Ayn Rand didn't suck the government tit?

Originally Posted by dnsmith

And yet I look out there at my friends, my children, my grandchildren and what you are saying simply does not show up on the horizon. What I do see are 4 relatively new auto factories in Alabama, none of which are union shops and all of which pay great wages. Maybe it is just a NE US phenomenon that we are doing well here in the south.

My reference is software development, not networking.
I'm very happy that good things are happening.
I don't want the graduating generation to get screwed.

Originally Posted by michael h

Are you stating Ayn Rand didn't suck the government tit?

Ayn Rand took what she paid into along with Medicaid which she didn't pay into.
And for her to get Medicaid took a sh!tload of work; I know because I got it for my mother-in-law.
She was a worthless piece of sh!t who left nothing behind but self-serving novels.

Originally Posted by michael h

Are you stating Ayn Rand didn't suck the government tit?

To get back part of what she paid? Absolutely.

Originally Posted by 9aces

Since government can point a gun at you and tell you to pay it, you pay it.

Yes we do and when they point the gun and say we are selling out to communists ... you go along with that too.

Originally Posted by USCitizen

It's very simple for deep minds.
Ayn Rand was telling everybody that manipulating people to do productive things is good.
And the manipulator takes all the credit.
The problem is that in today's world people are manipulated to do worthless sh!t.

Which is almost exactly the opposite of what she wrote.

Are you sure you've actually read any of Rand's work? Or is it just what other people have told you to think.

I'm betting it's the latter.

Originally Posted by 9aces

To get back part of what she paid? Absolutely.

Which she should have done without regrets ... why the regrets?

Originally Posted by michael h

Yes we do and when they point the gun and say we are selling out to communists ... you go along with that too.

Well it's either that or die. Do as we say slave or die. Some choices.

Originally Posted by michael h

Which she should have done without regrets ... why the regrets?

The appearance of giving government legitimacy I'd expect.

Originally Posted by USCitizen

My reference is software development, not networking.
I'm very happy that good things are happening.
I don't want the graduating generation to get screwed.

If they both think, and work, they won't.

Originally Posted by 9aces

Which is almost exactly the opposite of what she wrote.

Are you sure you've actually read any of Rand's work? Or is it just what other people have told you to think.

I'm betting it's the latter.

I read; she bores me to death with her pretentiousness.
Discussed with a colleague who saw it like you do and after an hour saw it the way I do.

She sucked the Medicaid teat even though she didn't need it.

Originally Posted by 9aces

Well it's either that or die. Do as we say slave or die. Some choices.

Yet she carried on about rational egoism. "the virtue of selfishness" How can taking benefits from government present such a conundrum for her?