One thing I noticed Ayn Rand having a respect for is the Industrialist; John Rockefeller, JP Morgan, Henry Ford etc. It seems the downfall to a business occurs when it leaves the hands of the pull yourself up by your bootstraps owner/creator and into the impersonal hands of greedy CEO’s who are more plugged into the DC circle than the actual hands on operations of the company.
Its not the business owner most of us despise, it’s the corporate guy who breezes into a business, looting as much as he can get and going on with his life elsewhere richer and fatter. Many of these CEO’s have no personal stake other than loss of reputation to make them want to create the best product, but who cares if your unpopular when you have your own island in the South Pacific. Their mentality often seems to me “I better get as much as I can before I get booted outta here”.
-Concho, thank you for your input regarding the Chicago Boys, I’ll have a lot of fun researching it and discovering how it all went wrong.
-Surflust, I agree with your post completely how its a bit unfair to demonize capitalism/free market when we haven’t really seen it happen in the US; though it seems the lending/mortgage industries had a laissez faire existence for awhile and we saw how it ended up. I also agree that in order to have a free market society one must have integrity if only for the sake of doing good business to make more profit.
Butleroftwo, I don’t have too many words. I’m actually happy that Obama put the smack down on Pelosi and told her to take out the Family Panning Pork. Also, I don’t remember Obama apologizing to Arabs, but I do remember him saying something to the extent that we will not apologize for the way we live as Americans, but hey, I admit I’m a supporter so I’m definitely one sided.
-kismetdad, thank you for referencing that article I can’t wait to read it and enjoyed the trivia you threw in there about the level of influence “Atlas Shrugged” has played in lives.
-davelj, I agree luck can play a fortunate role in our lives, but we can’t depend on it. Traditional Chinese culture understands the importance of luck and that it why it is so mystically desired in babies, newlyweds and pretty much every aspect of life. I think Ayn Rand would see luck as a form of mysticism and therefore she would reject it and tell people to plod on regardless of good or bad luck.
-jf, your sounding a little liberal in your wanting to recognize the sadness of the human plight because of dumb people…lol. Nice to see you again.
