Why Does Everyone Hate Ayn Rand?

[@GraniteLazy]

this has a shockingly low amount of views, this production quality is vox level 😭

[@futuresailor266]

Agreed!

[@Kariiiim79]

I only noticed after reading your comment!!!

[@CreatorsMZ]

Wow, thank you GraniteLazy

[@mikehardwicke23]

Videographic and sound quality wasn't so good 20 to 50 years ago. Rmember?

[@MossssMoth]

How are the views so low I was expecting this to have like an obnoxious amount considering the production quality. fantastic video!

[@ashtonkoegler1314]

I just find it so strange, people don’t talk about her, but when they do it is about how she is ignorant or horrible. It’s like a ‘She who must not be named.’

[@landogarner2007]

@@ashtonkoegler1314 I mean, the video does a great job outlining why nobody talks about her. She simply wasn't worth taking seriously by anyone with half a brain.

[@100bturner]

Public record...she collected Social Security.

[@MrJm323]

And?!? ....I take that you mean that people who are opposed to coercive pension schemes shouldn't apply to receive the old age/survivor benefits -- even if they PAID INTO IT? (Indeed, we are all compelled to pay into it.) She didn't grab the government gun, thrust it into your face and demand that you pay for her retirement; it's you socialists who did that to her (and everyone else opposed to the scheme). ...If any one is more entitled to a payout, obviously it's the victim, not the perps who force it on everyone else.

[@MateDrinker33]

To be fair, this is not a strict example of welfare, since she very likely paid in more than she took out.

[@100bturner]

@MateDrinker33 she took social security. And if you do the math...way more. The point is that she is full of shit. If she would have put that money in the private sector she would have lost it in many crashes. She is is a shit writer and a worse Capitalist.

[@100bturner]

@MateDrinker33 she only sold books because economics professors made the students buy them.

[@MrJm323]

Public record: She was compelled to pay into social security; what she collected was recompense. It's really telling when socialists admit that they think the benefits of a welfare program should only be available to supporters of state coercion which is at the heart of such systems, and that those who oppose this coercion shouldn't be able to get their money returned to them.

[@SuperTheFurry]

Quality stuff. Thank you!

[@chisairaccoon1931]

You’re one of the few creators who has better visuals than voice-over. It’s weird, it’s really technical editing with little thought to the rest. I’m only saying this because I know you’ll nail it soon keep it up

[@CreatorsMZ]

Thanks for the feedback chisairaccoon!! I appreciate your honesty. By ‘little thought to the rest’, do you mean the content of the VO or the technical quality of the audio?

[@ashtonkoegler1314]

@@CreatorsMZThis raccoon guy gave you such a backhanded compliment, and with such ambiguous constructive criticism. This guys a stinker!🫠

[@Floats736]

This is a very well produced summary of Rand's ideas, but the title is a bit misleading.

[@jadenpeterson3182]

Great video man

[@CreatorsMZ]

Thanks jadenpeterson :)

[@MrJm323]

1:10 ..."Ultimately dying of heart failure, alone, and accepting the very welfare payments she despised." Uh, yeah, people do die -- she wasn't immortal. (Is there something particularly significant that "heart failure" would be the immediate cause of an 77 year-old's death? Was that a moral failing of some kind?) She wasn't alone; it's true that her husband did precede her to the grave; they didn't have children, but she still had followers who visited her practically every day or every other day. So, sorry! She wasn't "alone." The "welfare payments" she received were HER ENTITLEMENTS, drawn on an account she paid into -- which she (as well as everyone else compelled to report their income) was COMPELLED to pay into. She was supposed to relinquish that, because she was opposed to being threatened with imprisonment for failing to pay into it?!?....It's utterly bizarre that it is the VICTIMS of theft -- moreover the ones who vocally OPPOSE the compulsory nature of the system -- who are told (by whom? by the perpetrators of the theft -- those who SUPPORT the coercive aspect of the system!) that they cannot GET THEIR OWN MONEY BACK!!! The ones who OPPOSED the compulsory system are the ones MOST ENTITLED to be compensated.

[@ashtonkoegler1314]

He was trying to get people to understand different perspectives, so that people could form their own opinion. He explains that she reclaimed what she was forced to give later in the video starting at 10:29 I think it could be a little more clear though.

[@bolshevikjohn]

Play bioshock.

[@samhainabyss]

the only good adaptation of any rand, and better parody of her too

[@b_lah_kay4515]

I know a guy who refuses to play the franchise because it’s “communist propaganda”

[@racpa5]

Would you kindly explain?

[@samhainabyss]

@@racpa5 have you not played bioshock?

[@Atlas-c8g]

​@@samhainabyssClearly you haven't if you didn't understand that comment

[@paulfrankenii7986]

A fitting end for history's biggest pick me girl

[@Chaneloweenz]

oh thats not....

[@ashtonkoegler1314]

Why is she a “pick me girl”?

[@traviswright9581]

someone wasn’t paying attention

[@mikehardwicke23]

I agree (mostly) with her principles. To believe otherwise one is submitting to Socialism, Centralisation and the Fiat Bankster debt system.

[@Indicteronomy]

Yeah good video, don't know why you don't have more viewers Also I hate Ayn Rand and her half-baked philosophy. "Objectivism". As if the internal states of people are not a part of the universe.

[@ashtonkoegler1314]

I think she had some pretty good insight. I’m grateful for her perspective and ideas. I don’t think it’s right to totally disregard something, and letting your raw emotions bastardize things. Some of the worst things happen when people act out, and use emotionally stained beliefs as justification.

[@ashtonkoegler1314]

Can you help me to understand? This is a genuine Curious George request.

[@Indicteronomy]

@@ashtonkoegler1314 My thinking was only that her intense emphasis on the "objective" achievements of people, and dislike of philanthropy, and then calling her philosophy "objectivism" implies that people's internal states are not a part of the objective universe, when they palpably are.

[@landogarner2007]

@@ashtonkoegler1314You have to be pretty ignorant and or naive to view anything she said as insightful.

[@cristicorte]

What a narcissist, yeesh.

[@johnvonachen1672]

Her books are some of the few that should be burned.

[@piperjackson7277]

Why?

[@MrJm323]

That's quite an admission on your part!

[@postmodernrecycler]

It would be more heat than light.