This is what happens when you take Ayn Rand seriously

[ZiprHead]

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-this-is-what-happens-when-you-take-ayn-rand-seriously

An outspoken advocate of free-market economics and fan of the novelist Ayn Rand, he created the model because he expected the invisible hand of the market to drive better results. If the company’s leaders were told to act selfishly, he argued, they would run their divisions in a rational manner, boosting overall performance.

Instead, the divisions turned against each other — and Sears and Kmart, the overarching brands, suffered. Interviews with more than 40 former executives, many of whom sat at the highest levels of the company, paint a picture of a business that’s ravaged by infighting as its divisions battle over fewer resources.

Sears store closing list: 142 more Sears, Kmart locations closing in Chapter 11 bankruptcy

 

[Trausti]

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-this-is-what-happens-when-you-take-ayn-rand-seriously

An outspoken advocate of free-market economics and fan of the novelist Ayn Rand, he created the model because he expected the invisible hand of the market to drive better results. If the company’s leaders were told to act selfishly, he argued, they would run their divisions in a rational manner, boosting overall performance.

Instead, the divisions turned against each other — and Sears and Kmart, the overarching brands, suffered. Interviews with more than 40 former executives, many of whom sat at the highest levels of the company, paint a picture of a business that’s ravaged by infighting as its divisions battle over fewer resources.

Sears store closing list: 142 more Sears, Kmart locations closing in Chapter 11 bankruptcy

This is a very long about way to say Sears failed to keep up with the times and let competitors, like Amazon, take its place. See also Kodak.

 

[Elixir]

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-this-is-what-happens-when-you-take-ayn-rand-seriously

An outspoken advocate of free-market economics and fan of the novelist Ayn Rand, he created the model because he expected the invisible hand of the market to drive better results. If the company’s leaders were told to act selfishly, he argued, they would run their divisions in a rational manner, boosting overall performance.

Instead, the divisions turned against each other — and Sears and Kmart, the overarching brands, suffered. Interviews with more than 40 former executives, many of whom sat at the highest levels of the company, paint a picture of a business that’s ravaged by infighting as its divisions battle over fewer resources.

Sears store closing list: 142 more Sears, Kmart locations closing in Chapter 11 bankruptcy

This is a very long about way to say Sears failed to keep up with the times and let competitors, like Amazon, take its place. See also Kodak.

Actually it's a close look into WHY Sears failed to keep up.
But pay no attention to that - you can always blame Hillary.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Ideology (Rand) vs Reality (Doing business competently).

 

[BH]

I have a question.

If a Libertarian and Rand fan is walking down the street and all of a sudden drops from a heart attack, and Libertarianism and Randism makes you sick, should you just be selfish and let the Libertarian Rand fan die? Also, if there is a law in place coercing you with punishment into helping the Libertarian Rand fan having the heart attack is it rational of the Libertarian Rand fan to threaten to have you prosecuted for not helping him if he survives and not let you have freedom to do as you wish? Will he make you a slave to save his life?

If I saw John Galt walking down the road and having a heart attack I'd help him, but make him sign a contract where he surrenders all of his shit and property and such. I did not coerce him. He freely would sign it over and I in turn would help him and save his life. And the best thing about it was the market was followed. His life was worth all his shit and that is the exact price I made him pay, Milton Friedman be praised!

Then I go run into the local Communist Party headquarters and tell them what I did and they all laugh.

 

[Arctish]

Objectivist heroes in Atlas Shrugged spend a lot of time telling each other they have no obligation to help anyone, not even to save lives. Which is why when Francisco d'Anconia decides to save John Galt from the torturers we're supposed to think he's a really swell guy, and when he says "if it had been anyone else but you..." we're supposed to think the rest of the sentence is some inexpressible bromance stuff, not "... I wouldn't have bothered to leave the Gulch because fuck him."

If John Galt has a heart attack right in front of you, do us and him a favor and let him die.

 

[BH]

I am sure when Eddie Lampert got kidnapped he did not mind having law enforcement funded from coerced tax dollars try to find him and a court funded by coercion put his kidnappers in prison.

You know, the Randians do not mind coercing people into paying for things like the military, courts, and police, but not other stuff. Why? Because they think of themselves as the ones who are rich or will be rich and the ones who will be in control of the military, courts, and police and these three organizations will always act on and reflect the will of those running them. You'd think being so superior and better than everyone else as they claim they are they would just do away with the courts, the military, and the police and just deal with shit themselves saving the tax money. Since they don't their claim to superiority is just blowing smoke and in fact are just a bunch of wimps.

 

[BH]

If John Galt has a heart attack right in front of you, do us and him a favor and let him die.

I think I would, honestly, if the law in the area allowed it. And if I had to do something according to law I would do the bare minimum just in case he survived. I seriously doubt he'd be rational and realize I wasn't his slave to call for help. I bet he'd want my head and ass on a platter if legally he could do so nevermind he would be making me his slave using the law to make me help him. He would be a parasite, being weak and not helping himself during his heart attack. I doubt he'd be impressed by arguments I'd make like I could have used the time spent helping him to go make money or rough fuck that high up business manager chick everyone talks about in Rand's book who likes getting rough fucked.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Ayn Rand was crazy as a shit house rat. Google books has parts of her Journals of Ayn Rand , including the outlines for an early book "Little Street". It is a bizarre read that tells us how much Rand hated normal, everyday people, and worshipped, narcissistic psychopaths.

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Journals_of_Ayn_Rand.html?id=2Gkx0STfl5kC

This does not include the entire "Journals", but does have the "Little Street" outline. It is bizarre, almost on the level of the most bitter William S.Burroughs nonsense. For those of us who like to rank on Rand, this is indispensable. It is a reasonably short read.

 

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Objectivist heroes in Atlas Shrugged spend a lot of time telling each other they have no obligation to help anyone, not even to save lives. Which is why when Francisco d'Anconia decides to save John Galt from the torturers we're supposed to think he's a really swell guy, and when he says "if it had been anyone else but you..." we're supposed to think the rest of the sentence is some inexpressible bromance stuff, not "... I wouldn't have bothered to leave the Gulch because fuck him."

If John Galt has a heart attack right in front of you, do us and him a favor and let him die.

Ah the Gulch. A socialist commune run by self-sufficient, highly intelligent individuals working together—each to their own strengths—that somehow still require of each other little yellow rocks to operate efficiently. Rand was a closet communist and never knew it.

 

[Jarhyn]

Ayn Rand was crazy as a shit house rat. Google books has parts of her Journals of Ayn Rand , including the outlines for an early book "Little Street". It is a bizarre read that tells us how much Rand hated normal, everyday people, and worshipped, narcissistic psychopaths.

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Journals_of_Ayn_Rand.html?id=2Gkx0STfl5kC

This does not include the entire "Journals", but does have the "Little Street" outline. It is bizarre, almost on the level of the most bitter William S.Burroughs nonsense. For those of us who like to rank on Rand, this is indispensable. It is a reasonably short read.

I would, but I know enough about Ryan's to already know anything that woman wrote is full of aggressive soul cancer.

Her entire philosophy is built on antisocial behavior and solipsism disguised as something "reasonable".