cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28841102
this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2024
266 points (97.5% liked)
Work Reform
11964 readers
34 users here now
A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
Our Philosophies:
- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
Our Goals
- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
- Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
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.
That would've been great. Instead she lived here last days collecting a social healthcare allowance, which is both hypocritical and on brand
(was looking through my comments and thought I would supplement my original comment to further exemplify your ignorance of Ayn rand's work. This is just GPT generated but it generally emphasizes what I want to say)
The theme of responsibility is integral to Ayn Rand’s philosophy, but it is framed primarily as individual responsibility. In her works, characters are responsible for their own success, values, and moral integrity. They are expected to take ownership of their lives, work hard, and create value without relying on others for unearned rewards. This sense of personal accountability is deeply tied to her advocacy for rational self-interest and the rejection of altruism as a moral duty.
The comic largely ignores or subverts this theme. It portrays the caricature of Rand as shirking responsibility for fairness or mutual benefit, while justifying exploitation under the guise of "rational self-interest." In contrast, Rand’s protagonists—such as Howard Roark in The Fountainhead or John Galt in Atlas Shrugged—embody the idea that self-interest is inseparable from productive effort and integrity. They take full responsibility for their work and its outcomes, even when faced with immense personal cost.
The workers in the comic, meanwhile, highlight the absence of reciprocal responsibility. In Rand’s view, individuals (or businesses) should not exploit others but should engage in voluntary, mutually beneficial exchanges. The satire undermines this by presenting the workers as victims of a one-sided interpretation of her philosophy, where responsibility is shouldered entirely by them while those in power evade it.
In essence, the comic exaggerates a critique that Rand's philosophy allows those in power to neglect their responsibility to others, while her works emphasize a balanced moral code where responsibility to oneself and voluntary relationships are key.
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.