Greg Salmieri

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Elucidations · Episode 73: Greg Salmieri discusses Ayn Rand's moral philosophy · 15 Jul 2015 podcast

And then collecting plans to pursue, even deciding what's the value, is something that's inherently done by the individual because reason is a faculty of the individual.

So valuing something, wanting something, thinking something's good, recognizing its value, is inherently an individual activity.

And so is producing the value.

Even if we produce the value through a cooperative effort, it's each of us individually thinking.

And then coordinating our efforts to produce it.

So the values start, they only come into existence in connection with particular people.

And she thinks for that reason those people rightfully own them.

So there's not at any point an issue of a common pot of values and what the just distribution of it is.

Now she thinks that since everybody has this ability, in a free society, people will tend to process.

prosper, everybody will be able to, barring some rare tragic circumstances of someone with a horrible disability or something, will be able to provide for himself and prosper and will be happiest doing that.

uh at least any rational person will be happiest doing that, rather than in effect being a parasite off of other people's productive work.

And for the very small minority of people who, for some tragic reason, are unable to do that, they'll be like the person in the tragic circumstance we just discussed, where people will have every reason to feel bad about that and to do what they can to help him.

So I mean there are a lot of political questions and I don't I seems we don't have time to address all these about why she thinks society will work that why why other people think it won't.

But that's the nature and the shape of the view.

Well, certainly not contempt for the poor.

I mean she has any number of characters who are heroes who are poor and are trying to pursue some cause that they regard as great but leaves them for some period in poverty.

Think of Howard Warke in the Fountainhead, if you've ever read it, who's, you know, reduced to working as a m back breaking manual labor.

What I think it's more reasonable to think she has contempt for is the incompetent, people who aren't able to produce anything, who aren't any good.

But even there, and she does say some nasty things about such people, but even there to think that that's a very large class of people, and she didn't, and to think that that class of people is the people who are currently the poor, which she didn't uniformly think, has to do with the person interpreting it.

it not with her way of thinking about it.

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