• rubpoll [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I used to be a psychotic little Randian, trying to make sense of Objectivism’s ridiculous contradictions, until I realized I couldn’t square the circle of why people should have kids.

    Babies have absolutely no value in a purely individualistic profit-seeking world. Why would anybody have a kid if they can’t even send it to work in the uranium mines for 5 whole years?

    In other words, I realized that if everybody acted the way Ayn Rand wanted them to, that would be the last generation of a species that chooses to extinguish itself.

    Which is why children are as absent as the Working Class in all her books.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      In other words, I realized that if everybody acted the way Ayn Rand wanted them to, that would be the last generation of a species that chooses to extinguish itself.

      No wonder so many Randroids openly hate children and have power fantasies of living forever.