Let’s not beat
around the bush, Rand makes it clear within these chapters that she despises
the role of government and how it has decided to take a role in the economy and
businesses. Ayn Rand would be appalled at the title of this post; it is clearly
shown whether it is Conway willing to appease the opinion of the majority of
the group or Boyle getting the better deal thanks to the government, at the
utter expense of the obviously better Rearden and his product.
I have no
problem saying that I do not agree with any of the thought process made here by
Rand. This idea that government is the highest evil among all evils is the core
of Rand gets at, she is professing the libertarian ideals. While in theory it
makes sense that an economy that is free to operate on its own without any type
of limitations will perform better than one with limitations that is not this
case. The single most important problem with this idea is that the equation fails
to take into account humanity on both sides of the equation. This theory that
she has says that the man’s humanity will ruin the economy from the outside in
but not the other way around. I believe that is the problem, it can easily be
seen that Taggart Transcontinental is a giant in the industry; Rand is implying
that government intervention will cripple the organizational and not allow it
to flourish. But if it were allowed to ‘flourish’, someone else must suffer.
Let me put it this way, would you rather it be fair chance for all (socialistic
choice) or fair for one (capitalistic choice). Obliviously neither of these
choices are the best, but they are the extremes that Rand is forming, she has a
side she wants you take, but if you had to choose one, which would it be.
No comments:
Post a Comment