1. read about Rand's philosophy
2. if you agree/can tolerate it go ahead
3. if you can't steer clear because it will suck so much

If you absolutely must read Rand, read the Fountainhead, for God's sake.

From what i do know i think i would agree with the majority of her philosophy of Objectivism.

I am definitely a big believer in the power of the free market and the fact that we owe every luxury we enjoy, from this website we use to the life saving oral chemo a cancer patient takes to profit-driven or "selfish" incentives.

I think in the end it's not as simple as that, if you are trying to come up with a philosophy of all life.

Atlas Shrugged really isn't her best book unless you already have a real hardon for objectivism.

Even disregarding her idiotic philosophical/ political views (which mainly originate from butt hurt over her rich fucking effeet factory owning family having to flee Russia during the revolution), her work is really bad. Its boring, contrived and not worth the wrist strain of having to hold the massive pile of shit while you read it.

Anthem wasn't too bad, but it wasn't great either.

>>374528
>>374528
Easy for rich people from 1st world countryes to think like this, do you realize that it's not just your freedom involved in this process, there are people in other countryes that have to actually work, just so you can choose what will you use your freedom for.
Think about this for a second, to support one american, and all his freedom, the things you take for granted, you need at least 5 people from other countryes working hard and getting paid close to shit just so your side of the free market can sell you cheap things so you don't have to toil just to get food.
you might not be American, but anyway the point stands, this "freedom" is supported by 3rd world slaves who do not have the choice to give themselves the luxury you think you owe yourself.
I don't know if I made a clear comment, I'm sleepy, but I think you can see the hole in objectivism if you realize the entire world it preaches only works for a minor elite supported by imperialism on poorer nations, and they can't be objectivists.

>>374815
you are first world faggot yourself
economy isn't a zero sum game. india and china are going through a phase we left in the 60s

>>374815
>implying anyone outside North America and Europe is a person

Oh, you!

>>374849

>implying eastern europeans are people

>>374857
>implying Eastern Europe is Real Europe, and not the geographical equivalent of New Coke

The Randian hero is a joke. Our advancement owes itself to the work of "parasites".
It is an elite minority of the elite minority that got there by the sweat of his brow. And HE probably doesn't even work in a field that greatly benefits us collectively.

>>374866
>i wanna imply stuff too

>>374845
>>374845
Well I'm an economist, so I think I know pretty well what economy is, It's predatory kid, get over yourself.
1st world consumes the rest of the world, we harvest we manufacture and sell it to you at a cheap price, we get paid less, and we are denied the ability to become better because your selfishness sees it as all right, just some plays in the game, nothing wrong with raping others to get profit.
And kid, learn your economics, we produce a certain amount of everything in the world, 1st world countryes consume almost everything, it is a zero-sum game. you just have monetary blindness.
lrn2 macroeconomics

>>374891
>benefits us collectively.

I see what you fucking did there, and, quite frankly, I do not approve of it.

>>374900
China should , by rights consume more, just from the numbers. And when they succeed in taking the vitamin water out of your sniveling shit mouth I will be laughing like a chinaman

>>374916
>implying a three-foot-tall peasant can reach high enough to take the vitamin water out of my hand, let alone my mouth

>>374916
>>374916
>>374916

China should indeed consume more, did you not pay attention to my post? It also produces way more than it should, just to satisfy the rest of the world. And does not get what it should, only now they are thinking of letting china become part of the little ruling group that fucks the rest of the world over.

>EVERYONE deserves to live as the first-world does.

It would ruin our shit if India and China consumed that much. We should kill 90% of both and start over.

>>374471

Isn't her philosophy selfish and materialistic?Super capitalist?

I might not agree with it, but I don't see how it's intolerable.

>>374948
sorry I did kind of lash out without reading your post.