Is pic related an accurate representation of Atlas Shrugged?
>>7966390
yes
>>7966628
Then I most definitely need to read it. Is it as great as /lit/ says it is?
>>7966651
It's like cumming while going Super Saiyan XXV and then Freiza's back with a dick punch somehow strong enough to burst your dragon balls.
>>7966628
please elaborate
It doesn't properly convey it. That image just comes off as 'lolrandom' whereas AS is basically Gods dressed up like humans in a shit world being avatars of a larger god. There's a part near the end of the book where one objectivist pushes another while the woman tries to stop it and it's framed like the entire fucking world tipped.
It's like bad fanfiction but somehow worse. I wish I could remember the page because it was just completely ridiculous.
>>7966390
No.
This is.
>>7967647
I sometimes don't understand if people are too stupid to understand a shit book or if the book is so shit that they don't understand it.
>>7967667
I sometimes wonder of /lit/izens are capable of making a statement that is clear enough to respond to.
Having read AS more than once, including for a review, I think BtAF's little rant captures on of the most critical of Rand's failures.
>>7967535
lol so random xD
>>7967647
what happens when they do get the robots though
>>7967677
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
>>7967672
>rich people don't know how to cook
>government is what keeps farms running
yeah that angry flower sure showed them
>>7967680
thats not a very good video
>>7967698
explain why
>>7967695
>I am actually clinically retarded
FTFY
The point of Bob was
1) The characters in AS are so flat and two dimensional they are made of tissue.
2) Rand, who didn't know a thing about anything like manufacturing or transportation, was bluntly, obviously ignorant of the huge amount of people and infrastructure required to maintain anything approaching civilization. her Galt's Gulch of Top Men mining gold and making cigarettes skipped over the fact that in such a society a majority of epople and labor would be on basic agriculture, not classical music (that no one there could play because duh - no orchestra or spare time!).
Rand was a ranter, not a thinker or planner, and the holes in Atlas Shrugged are so many and so large a locomotive could drive through most of them
>see what I did there?
>>7967677
Someone has to build, maintain, and repair them
>>7967723
so a small amount of highly skilled middle class workers?
the point is that the traditional working class is rapidly becoming obsolete
>>7967723
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lj1MCjeFxrM
Our duty is clear
>>7967738
>middle class workers
Skilled workers are not middle class.
>>7967762
I'm not arguing in favour of Ludditism
I'm eagerly awaiting the techno-singularity
>>7967762
>implying we think the past was better
you missed the point of the video, you subhuman mongoloid
>>7966390
>Atlas Shrugged is a poorly-written, poorly-plotted, overly-long potboiler full of thin characters, plot holes, and author rants
>ITT: People argue about who would maintain a hypothetical army of labor bots
This is where Objectivists come from, kids
>>7967762
yeeea cgp is most defs not making a golden age claim,
in fact you're agreeing w his points
productivity per person is UP, meaning that need for labour is DOWN
basic income when
>>7968104
probably never
rich people are just going to live in their automatic enclaves while the rest of us fester in the Islamic swamp
>>7968124
i see the possibility of a ruling class finding it cost-effective to provide a basic income to us below.
not claiming it would solve our problems by any means, it honestly benefits the rich more to keep the masses appeased and believing that they are cared for.
at least in canada (where i'm at) i can see it happening.
>>7968145
if the rich can secure their property and reproduce wealth without the rest of the world they'll do it in a heartbeat
I certainly would
>>7967758
Is that why they're all complaining about burgerbitches almost making the same as them?
>>7968158
desu i don't think "the rich" are homogeneous enough of a group to do that. that's sort of a fantasy scenario. my understanding of wealth is that it changes hands often, and most people who are wealthy fight tooth and nail with other wealthy people to increase/maintain their wealth. there isn't this cigar-toting belly laugh kinship among everyone earning 7+ figures or possessing equivalent assets, they are often each others' enemies.
vaguely hot 2bh
>>7967672
No it doesn't. That rich playboy in the utopia city is ready to plow the field for his own work and future. That comic is literally a parasite bitching that he has to work. An objectivist would paid whomever can cook and work on their own shit.
>>7967721
And Marx was bad at finances.
yeah
What I would give for a night of passion with Ayn Rand. I don't even like her ideas. In fact it makes me horny to fuck a female author who I disagree with. I imagine her hurriedly making amends to her notes so I will consider for another bout of "find my peacock".
