The premise that some people are just better than everyone else is not intelligent. Valuing a person’s worth as a human by measuring their productivity is genocidal.
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malaph@infosec.pub 10 months agoYou can agree with some principles of a work and reject others. What parts of her philosophy do you find to be lunacy?
Wakmrow@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Valuing a person’s worth as a human by measuring their productivity is genocidal.
Of course you don’t value people based on their productivity! That’s downright anti-American “from each according to his ability” commie talk! You value people based on their net worth! One Dollar, One Vote, that’s what I always say.
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malaph@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Some people are just better in terms of being productive. I don’t see how that’s debatable. The question is just if you let those people keep they’re outsized earnings or you forcibly redistribute them.
malaph@infosec.pub 10 months ago
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Wakmrow@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m going to respond so hopefully you grow.
Productivity is difficult to measure or define. Intelligence is similar. Regardless, neither of these things define value in a human life. Some people love to cook, some are great at reading comic books. One might be really good at watching TV. In the end, your preference for what is seen as valuable comes to your preference. There’s nothing objective about it. More concretely, in many engineering jobs great engineers are promoted into management positions for which they are ill suited. They make more money, are they not definitionally more productive? Yet the company and team is worse off.
As for your question, Rand is not subtle about her thoughts.
malaph@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Odd to me that you equate productivity with the value of a person.
chakan2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Her stances on Race, Rape, Economics, Gender, and her Writing style…all lunacy.
malaph@infosec.pub 10 months ago
I like her stance on economics and free markets … Also the prime mover concept is somewhat accurate
TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
malaph@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Yeah… I’m not a fan of that either personally.