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on a related note, Bertrand Russell made this exact point as well:
This is the morality of the Slave State, applied in circumstances totally unlike those in which it arose. No wonder the result has been disastrous. Let us take an illustration. Suppose that at a given moment a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins as before. But the world does not need twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price. In a sensible world everybody concerned in the manufacture of pins would take to working four hours instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before. But in the actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked. In this way it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all round instead of being a universal source of happiness. Can anything more insane be imagined?
This one is nice: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/258
Is it fair to say that Ayn Rand’s philosophy is basically ruling our lives?
“Oh Bartholomew, I feel like St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion by Ambrose of Milan”
Yes, in her model there is nothing stopping the much more numerous workers from just taking her stuff.
So I’m no a fan of her ideas. I have however read a lot of her stuff mostly to refute a friend who was a fan.
That said she was very much against violence to achieve political or personal goals. She was however very ok with using money and economic power to achieve goals.
So buying a business to fire someone you don’t like, shutting down a business to punish a town, etc. All completely ok in her book.
She opposed physical violence because it would indeed be a tool for people to rip away the power her ideal man had, i.e economic or other coercive violence.
Put another way, ayn rand would be Musks biggest possible fan right now and wouls absolutely loathe Luigi.
Oh yeah she is a big fan of money makes right instead of might makes right.
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