[The following is a guest post by Ganzir and does not necessarily reflect the views of Pumpkin Person]
Source from where I got Atlas Shrugged and all quotations from it in this article: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458873
“When you work in a modern factory, you are paid, not only for your labor, but for all the productive genius which has made that factory possible: for the work of the industrialist who built it, for the work of the investor who saved the money to risk on the untried and the new, for the work of the engineer who designed the machines of which you are pushing the levers, for the work of the inventor who created the product which you spend your time on making, for the work of the scientist who discovered the laws that went into the making of that product, for the work of the philosopher who taught men how to think and whom you spend your time denouncing.”
“The machine, the frozen form of a living intelligence, is the power that expands the potential of your life by raising the productivity of your time. If you worked as a blacksmith in the mystics’ Middle Ages, the whole of your earning capacity would consist of an iron bar produced by your hands in days and days of effort. How many tons of rail do you produce per day if you work for Hank Rearden? Would you dare to claim that the size of your pay check was created solely by your physical labor and that those rails were the product of your muscles? The standard of living of that blacksmith is all that your muscles are worth: the rest is a gift from Hank Rearden.”
Ayn dear, if I were paid for all the productive genius which made that factory possible, I would need to spend a lot less time pushing levers and have a lot more time to spend denouncing you.
No, I would never dare to claim that the size of my paycheck was created solely by my physical labor, but neither should Hank Rearden claim that the size of his paycheck was created by any one person. Rand’s insight that infrastructure is a force multiplier is correct, but she was hardly the first person to think of it, although she might have been the first person to make the non-sequitur leap that this means capitalism good altruism bad. If you were digging a large hole by hand, and I gave you a shovel, you would become more productive because you could move dirt more quickly with the shovel than without it. However, you still had to put in work to move that dirt, so we both contributed to completing the job, which should be finished by throwing your copy of Atlas Shrugged into that hole and covering it back up. The upshot of these two paragraphs from John Galt’s raving is that, if I sit on my ass in the shade drinking lemonade while you dig that hole, then I dug the hole and you should thank me for the hard, hard work of sitting on my ass.
We all stand on the shoulders of giants, and also on the shoulders of dwarves. When I flip on a light switch, the light bulbs in that room would not turn on if there were nobody working at power plants. That should not be a surprise. The conveniences we tend to take for granted would vanish without people doing the work to keep things running behind the scenes. Rand’s mistake is thinking that the mega-capitalist keeps everything running behind the scenes. SpaceX would not exist if it could not draw on the innovations made by NASA, so Elon Musk is as indebted to the federal government as our rail-worker is to Hank Rearden, if not more so. Don’t you think Rand would object to that statement, truth be damned? If she were still alive, and she wanted to confront me in person, would her route to my house take her across the Interstate Highway System, which was sponsored by the federal government?
A gift from Hank Rearden? Notwithstanding that dubbing force multiplication a “gift” is uncharacteristically pro-altruistic coming from Aunty Ayn, this ignores the fact that Hank Rearden’s steel company (more like steal company) cannot function without the machines, scientists, and pushable levers that Rand thinks increase the wages of rank-and-file workers. Hank Rearden should thank them for his paycheck, not the other way around. Also note that, by equating the size of the laborer’s paycheck with how many tons of rails he makes each day, Rand implicitly claims that doing more work gets you paid more. I think we all know that, in real life, the correlation between how much work you do and how much you get paid is negative. Corporations tend to suffer from a condition, which might be called staff infection, wherein blue-suited meeting-attenders are remunerated an order of magnitude more than the blue-collared work-doers who, you know, actually do work.
How can Rand think that holding stock in a company implies that you had a share (pun intended) in all the work done by employees of that company? She even wrote, “the industrialist who built it”, as though Hank Rearden personally laid down every inch of track his company owns, possibly because she read a phrase like, “President Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway System”, and took it a teensy-weensy bit too literally. Yet even that pales in comparison to
lauding, “the investor who saved the money to risk on the untried and the new”, who must be sweating blood from the back-breaking work of throwing a fraction of their spare cash at a high-risk investment while the rest goes into Treasury bonds. I suppose Rand’s reconciliation would be that, in her fayntasy world, there exists a one-to-one correspondence between Ubermenschen and tycoons. Please cross-reference a list of Nobel Prize winners with a list of Fortune 500 CEOs and see for yourself how much they overlap. In fairness, the book’s copyright page does say, “Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously…”. Rand’s most imaginative act when writing Atlas Shrugged was naming the book after how much it weighs.
Pumpkin Person 
Yo guys. Im black. Anyways.
They sent soem crackas into the hood n shit to do some ‘IQ testin’. I rapped for 1 hour and told dose broke niggas to go home. I ain’t robbin no broke people.
They said I scored really low but thats because the tests be racisss n shi. Anyways.
I spit a few lines of premium rap
Meesa gonna fuck you
Fuck you up
Yo,
Fuck you
Fuck you
Meesa goin fuck you up n shit
Anyways, Im black
the most irish man in the world:
he blames all his problems on the english.
AND
he’s RIGHT!
if capitalists were what they like the proles to believe they are then there’d be nothing wrong with them. quote from Enemy at the Gates.
I wanna work in a factory.
My grand dad took me
to a factory once.
There was this man there,
high up on a…
on a foot walk.
He wasn’t wearing blue
like the others.
The people he was supervising
didn’t understand what they were doing.
But for him,
for him up there,
it was simple;
it was clear.
And I thought, “One day,
I could be that man.”
but hardly any of them, including musk and gates, are actually such a person. but at the same time mugabe is for steeply progressive inheritance taxes of the few such capitalists who do exist.
another thing about hard work professors of econ don’t unnuhstan is…
even if the job is hateful, pipo are motivated to work hard when they fear that they will let down their fellows in the enterprise.
this is japanese capitalism in a nutshell. promotion is based almost exclusively on seniority. or was until very recently.
no need to impose the fear of being fired (stick). no need to impose the expectation of a raise and a promotion (carrot).
the guilt of letting down your fellows is motivation enough.
in a mono-ethnic society like japan this works better than it does in a mutliethnic society like the US.
but autistic pipo habitually naturalize what is unnatural and extrapolate from one situation to all situations.
i do hate it when pipo say “it’s complicated.”
the reality is “it’s subtle.”
but autistic pipo habitually naturalize what is unnatural and extrapolate from one situation to all situations.
The core issue with people on the autism spectrum is lack of imagination. To be able to just come up with weird angles and ways of seeing things.
This is why luck is a ‘coin flip’. Not a game of monopoly. Not roll the dice. Not going to the bookies to bet on horses etc etc.
So asking an autistic person how the economy works, is like asking a 7 year old neurotypical how people organise themselves/are organised.
The core issue with people on the autism spectrum is lack of imagination.
Unless the autist is an aspie, in which case they can imagine a Goddess named Marsha who you worshipped for 5 years
remember this? how will hunting is irresponsible precisely because he is responsible.
that is, he ruins his own life precisely because he blames himself for things he shouldn’t. because he’s ashamed.
this is a yuge thing with class in america at least. see Doctors Diaries and doctor turk. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/program.html
america makes poor pipo ASHAMED!
This was a huge theme of the countless shows Oprah did about sexual abuse; helping victims see that it wasn’t their fault especially in cases where victims didn’t realize it was abuse until years later:
but the thing is they may blame themselves still for having such evil relatives, if their abusers were relatives.
or they blame themselves for being in such shitty circumstances that their parents allowed it to happen, that such a thing was even possible.
epstein had no chirren.
it’s shame for where you come from, not just shame for yourself proper.
One reason Oprah blamed herself was that it allegedly kept happening, first with her 19-year-old cousin, then with another cousin’s boyfriend, then with her favorite Uncle. She thought there must have been something bad about her that all these men were picking up on. She also felt shame because she said it felt good and that “if the abuser is any good” you wont even know it’s abuse.
Sadly, the Qtards lacked the social IQ (and honesty) to understand what she was saying and thought she was endorsing child abuse & thus the Queen of the Satanic cabal that rules the World, who Trump was supposed to destroy. Trump is right, “they’re very stupid people” (the Qanon subset not the other Epstein truthers who I respect). One thing I have to give Trump credit for is conning the Qtards into worshipping him for years, only to kick them to the curb like the trash they are.
Oprah is very insightful and analytical when it comes to sexual abuse:
i mean what do you think when someone tells you he/she has been sexually abused as a chirren?
at least i think:
wtf!
how is that even possible!?
i mean if it’s something that happened again and again, not just once.
i remember when i was in hs one of the coaches took showers with the boys after practice.
it was only much later that i realized how INAPPROPRIATE this was.
so i never told my parents, because i didn’t know.
even though the other guys made jokes, they didn’t do anything either.
I don’t think I am autistic.
I am a ward of the state.
The judge did not say much in march..
I don’t know where the doctor is.
Have not seen him in 8 years.
Will hunting father probably was in Vietnam
Youre autistic. And your psychiatrist is bribed to pretend youre transgender or anorexic or ADD or indeed every single condition in the book where medication is recommended.
Autism doesn’t make money for doctors.
i apologize. i take full responsibility.
it wasn’t doctor turk.
it was doctor tom tartar. from Doctors’ Diaries. even though he’s fat and smokes and has ridiculous facial hair i feel sorry for the guy.
i doubt he has any tartar ancestry. lenin was supposedly part tartar.
tom tartar is an example of how being an ethnic minority allows one to evade the shame imposed by the american class system.
if you’re not white you can blame whites.
if you’re an immigrant you have no idea.
melo: oh the poor cis-het wyman. weeping violins n shit.
mugabe: well exactly! that’s capital! that’s why you’re a neoliberal and don’t even know it. your script is written for you!
SAD!
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At top facilities they have intra sophisticated math running on computer that do brain scans.
Same for genetics.
So they do understand most mental illnesses. They can tell what a traumatized brain looks like. In high definition 4K
Yet we only have so many doctors that we don’t send everyone to them.
Like maybe we have one doctor that exists where I am but they have old equipment and 100,000 patients.
Those people with the QEEG maps they are for profit and not FDA approved to treat mental illnesses but they have the best technology.
FNIR (functional near inferred) is best so far. But it costs money. Instead they are giving away medication that doesn’t work because it’s the only thing approved. Medication that rots holes in the brain. Vitamins and minerals and diet would work better.
One paper I found from 2012 explains the cycles of neurotransmitters in the brain for learning. You can tell what works in the brain and what doesn’t just from modeling these cycles. TED talks are for morons whom the elites need them to think the science is way behind what it actually is.
Well as a Black Man, with a capital D, I blame jews for oppressing me. They told me if we marched in Selma I would get rich.
And all they did was make movies and books about it. I never actually got rich.
Man, wish Oprah would tell me what to do.
lol. Oprah did recently tell a black man what to do:
Without western intervention, africa’s pop is 5% of its current level. We don’t need to debate this because you guys are religious, and I’m not and nothing I can say will change your ‘morals’.
Now run the scenarios on the remaining pop.
My personal prediction would be that blacks bludgeon each other to death as in other places to the point where a tiny population of severely High T 7’8 blacks is left and these people make Melo their king.
So i would say people on the left tend to be more correct about everything and all domains/topics but on ‘substantive’ issues, the ‘right’ (non-neoliberals) tend to know things that one would need to figure out out it all works e.g. race science
Why can’t they just sit down over a beer and agree? They were conditioned to have a fake debate and be angry. Divide and conquer.
Nobody ever disagrees about the truth.
And then some will say religion is another chasm and can’t be bridged. A left wing person can’t tell a religious person his beliefs are copium.
And theres no ‘both sides’. Religion is bs.
So a very high IQ right wing person has to suggest the left wing person is also religious to equalise it. And they always are. Always.
How about we sit down over a beer and agree to stop being religious and only think for ourselves?
Look. Im not autistic. I know how painful that would be. Maybe even more so for the left wing religious zealots. They have this idea they are ‘more informed’ (by who/whom, name the priest/rabbi).
“But we’re on the right side of history”
History doesn’t have a side dumbass. Whose side? Name the side? Who is directing you and why? Come on RR, name your master.
RR:”But people in Tel Aviv are more moral than palestinians and gentiles”.
Thats right!
But not more moral than black people like me.
RR: Thats right. Blacks are the most moral. My son is more genetically inclined to be moral.
Anyways, I identify as a black man now.
Like Melo.
Rabbi Stephen Jay Gould said Race is a social construct and evolution doesn’t apply to humans or the Likkud Party.
This is what pill means by “autism”
Non autistic = an extraverted person with emotional problems.
He says “autistic” people have no imagination, what he really mean is that people like me are not fucked up enough in the head to contemplate fucked up shit.
Imagination in the sociopath mind = not autism
Did you know that I have both Irish genes and sub Saharan genes.
You know what that means.
It means I am Black Irish
(Only a little bit)
for the record
not being a sociopath doesn’t make you autistic or transgender or whatever crazy shit pills mind came up with to justify his bullying
I was neglected as a child
and no one wanted to be my friend in school because I don’t care about Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh or football.
in fifth grade I drew a computer and found a picture of the first transistor made at bell labs. But you know what happened? No one told me what it was for and in highschool no one told me what coding was. So you know what happened? I was ignored by everyone. In gifted programs they expect you to just figure it out yourself. They don’t talk to you. Just like my mother never talked to me. I was all alone.
The same thing happened at the hospital. They put me in a group home. I did nothing for two years.
calling neglect autism is just mean.
by the way pill your not black
i saw my relatives in Kansas and they were
I don’t need to identify because I actually am, to a small percentage
Even when I was around people the reason I never became a sociopath was that I never felt the need to manipulate people. It hurt my feelings to see people be mean to each other and I simply avoided it.
Thinking about manipulation all the time is bad for you anyway. Imagination should be use for other things instead.
my step father never liked me. He said his IQ was 125 and the look on his face reminded me of schemer who owned the jukebox in the imagination station where Thomas the tank engine stayed. I don’t like sociopaths at all.
When I was in foster care the lady never understood the far side comics I read. She gambled at slot machines so I think she had a lower intelligence than most people. My mom likes scratch tickets but I think she was dumber, could not afford slot machines.
will hunting
if his iq was based on William James Sidis then you need to take his supposed iq of 300 and find the square root √3 = 173
anything above 200 you need to take the square root because age ratio iq is not a real IQ
Fields medalist average IQ of Nobel prize winners I am assuming of 148
so the fact that will hunting solved the problem on the spot when the professor took two years could tell us a lot about the speed up. He simply saw the solution right away from all the interrelationships the prophesier did not see.
upper volta with nukes
a gas station with nukes
the T1 was better than anything the allies had.
MiG pilot.
so many nobels!
just stop the LIES!
i remember when i was a little girl and i met a russian in the sauna.*
russian: who do you think won ww ii n shit mother fucker?
little girl mugabe: you! but with the help of the US and britain.
MUGABE TAKES FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR REPEATING IDEOLOGY LIKE A PUPPET IN A SAUNA!**
*actually not a gay sauna
**something LURKER personality will NEVER take responsibility for.
Rocky and Bullwinkle (Natasha and Boris)
Rocky the boxer (hey rockie)
Ronald Reagan the alien threat to unite the world speech
transformers robots in disguise
G.I.Joe vs Cobra
X-men
where in the world is Carmen San Diego
Captain planet and the planiters
Spiderman’s parents were spy’s for FDR
mr fusion energy device for the delorian can in back to the future 2
thundercats (home planet explodes in a war and they migrate to third earth – liono has a cool sword)
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you could say that ideology is everything but then culture creates ideology and culture comes from instilling the youth with ideas.
i read dinosaur books as a kid
i had space Lego, star wars Lego and Egyptian Lego toys.
i had a library and tv
school sucked but I had movies and picture comic books and museum.
McDonald’s has toys
we have the Eisenhower highway system and we landed on the moon.
my computer had games
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yes culture is different in other places around the world.
we don’t all need to be the same
Look up:
Quintin Tarantino’s Star Trek by nerdquest – it’s kick ass
maybe that is what you need is the government in Star Trek.
capitalism is not the only way to run society but communism is not the best way either.
anyway!
anyway!
that’s what my broke-ass BUT bourgeois dad used to say to his employees when he thought what they were saying was boring.
^^^PURE EVIL^^^
the POINT is NOT that stalinism is the one true ideology n shit. that’s GAY!
THE POINT is the alternatives ON OFFER are also GAY! AND RETARDED!
THE COLD WAR HAS YET TO BE RESOLVED IN ANYTHING THAT MIGHT BE SATISFACTORY FOR PIPO WHO AREN’T RETARDED.
THIS IS WHY RUSSIA AND CHINA ARE STILL AMERICA’S NOT-ALLIES!
i remember this american black guy in some documentary who defected. he moved to the soviet union. dude said nothing bad about it.
as oswald, awyman who did the same thing said:
i make plenty of money but i have nothing to spend it on!
WOW! that’s where zizek comes in and says THAT IS IDEOLOGY!
Nothing has been resolved because we still all live under fear of the Samson Option by a historically and presently insanely combative nation. How could you resolve that?
If you look at the history of it, Ukraine is how Russia is invaded every time. It’s a flat area straight into Moscow. They are just trying to protect themselves since the government of Ukraine was turning anti Russian by the CIA
my dad was a prosecutor. and a good prosecutor. if he’d staid yuge pension etc..
peepee: so what happened?
mugabe: he told me that to continue as a prosecutor would be IMMORAL! it would be EVIL!
peepee: because they weren’t guilty?
mugabe: WRONG! it was because what chomsky has talked about. it was LOCK ‘EM UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY!
I was blonde as a kid. Super blonde.
Now I have black brown hair.
I look Scandinavian in feature.
But not sure how. They have many looks. I look like an ancient Nordic king. Viking almost.
Grandmothers family came from Montana where the dutch lived in north Dakota. I have pictures of her grandparents. And I have the deed to my great grandmothers grave.
I hope to make a map someday of all my relatives.
I know two people who are Sicilian and one Italian. It’s strange to think of different culture because you have to do so based on biology differences. The way the body is. Romans evolved to fight wars so other cultures evolved in different ways? This also makes them have different temperament and personality and how this relates to the mythology they believe in. How language is used.
That people are not all the same can be either understood or not when you know how the culture evolved really tells you if others will understand you. Geography Anthropology and biological makes sense together.
Sounds like your dad was quite low in psychopathy.
Beuracracy. And in Marxist terms you pit the gangs against each other. To do so you get the colleges to teach Marxism. So when the chaos happens this is taken advantage of to install new leaders. But this doesn’t work in the USA because we are smart enough to keep everyone with enough resources that they don’t turn into gangs in the city.
Now I understand why you couldn’t make it out of high school like Melo and RR.
Its funny, because these guys confirm the stereotype that high school dropouts are well below average IQ
When I went to secondary school in Ireland, the guys that dropped out usually became criminals.
I mean, if youre really not into school, there was an option to do every subject at ‘foundation’ level which I genuinely think people with down syndrome would pass.
In Gaelic, you just had to match words to pictures. And it wasn’t really complicated ‘metaphor’ words we have in Gaelic. It was like a picture of a stone and ‘gloc’. Bothar=Road.
I think even my sister passed normal level Gaelic which is a miracle. I got a C in higher level which was a total disaster.
In advanced gaelic we had to read this novel about growing up in 1980s ireland when the government was run by the mafia (ie. same as now) and the unemployment rate was 15% (even with gigantic mass migration).
The book is about a guy who wants to be a musician and play rock music.
Anyways I found gaelic way harder than any other language I’ve ever tried, including Chinese and BLM/Tehnesi Coates
We’ve had 80 years of the same government like Mexico, Singapore, Japan and so on. Even though we’re a ‘democracy’.
Eventually the Irish will rebel. I just know it.