• @[email protected]
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    803 days ago

    A real ceo does everything. Delegation is for losers who can’t cope. Can’t move fast enough and break enough things if you’re constantly waiting for your lackeys to catch up.

    If those numbers people were cleverer than the ceo, they’d be the ones in charge, and they aren’t. Checkmate. Do you even read Ayn Rand, bro?

    • @[email protected]
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      193 days ago

      Is that what Ayn Rand is about? All I really remember is that having a name you chose yourself is self-fulfilling.

      • sp3ctr4l
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        Ayn Rand is about spending your whole life moralizing a social philosophy based on the impossibility of altruism, perfect meritocratic achievement perfectly distributing wealth, and hatred of government taxation, regulation, and social welfare programs…

        … and then dying alone, almost totally broke, living off of social security and financial charity from your former secretary.

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          23 days ago

          I wonder if she ever realised or simply blamed everyone around herself.

          Every time I read about her dying alone and broke I smile a little.

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          203 days ago

          A monologue that last SIXTY PAGES of dry exposition. Barely credible characterization from the protagonist and villains and extremely poor world building.

          Anthem is her better book because it keeps to a simple short story format - but still has a very dull plot that shoehorns ideology throughout. There’s far better philosophical fiction writers out there like Camus, Vonnegut, or Koestler. Skip Rand altogether imo