• AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
    35·
    21 days ago

    I always find the “rational self-interest” folks funny, because they always seem to imagine people’s inner nature to be anti-social and ruthless. Over the last few years, I have been working on being kinder, and I am the primary beneficiary of that work. Trying my best to not be an asshole is me at my most rationally self-interested.

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      21 days ago

      Trying my best to not be an asshole is me at my most rationally self-interested.

      That is very selfless of you.

    • Flocklesscrow@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      21 days ago

      Now add in the creation and capture of Surplus Value, and distribution of profits from the sale of said surplus.

      “Rational Self-Interest” is pure masturbatory rhetoric from the Capital class.

    • KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      21 days ago

      Well, how much money do you make? How many millions of $? If you thrive on the discrepancy of assets then you need to be an asshole. If someone else does it, then you need to be an asshole to them, just to fend for yourself.

  • phneutral
    9·
    21 days ago

    Guillotine is such a harsh word. I‘d call it „social scissors“.

    • frayedpickles@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      4·
      21 days ago

      If you consider that Ayn rand’s body was probably reasonably healthy and just her mind is wrong, this is really more of a scalpel to be used in the removal of a dangerous tumor.

  • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    21 days ago

    Man can you imagine if that happened for real. Hopefully before she wrote her second book. That Russian piece of trash. I wished I believed in hell, just so i could believe she is burning in it.

    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
      5·
      21 days ago

      That would’ve been great. Instead she lived here last days collecting a social healthcare allowance, which is both hypocritical and on brand

    • mechoman444@lemmy.world
      14·
      21 days ago

      Clearly you haven’t actually read anything by her. And if you did you didn’t understand any of it.

      Throughout The Fountain Head and Atlas Shrugged there are themes of taking responsibility for the power one wields with their rational self interest. As in providing for the people working under someone in power.

      I would assume you don’t like Ayn Rand because you heard that right wingers like her or because she was simply Russian. Both reasons are ignorant and irritating.