Here's a bite of reality for Ayn Rand-ites and trolls

[metapunditedgy]

Look, we agree that talented, productive people are important to a society. They should be encouraged, and hopefully they're human enough to work for society's good.

Beyond that, many of you are insane. Who are your heroes? The "titans of industry?" You think that CEOs are really so much more talented and hard-working that they deserve thousands of times the wealth, or more, than their employees?

Objectivists believe in evolution, and reality tells us that viruses evolve just as we do. You happen to worship these executives/viruses whose only "talent" is to invade their hosts (making use of assorted bodily fluids), kill off competition, steal resources, and eventually consume their hosts to feed their reproductive drive.

Do you think your "titan of industry" overlords want you to live a life of individualistic blasphemy, as Rand's heroes do? If so, why do you repeat their talking points and support initiatives that make them more wealthy (at taxpayer expense)? Why do you lap up the crap they advertise to you? I bet you have a drawer full of Gold Bond Medicated Powder... sucker.

[Bonhomme Richard]

1. CEO's of most big corporations are there because they were.......

very good at gaming the system (using company politics) their entire career. Ethics didn't fit into the equation though focus on one goal is essential
Small companies are an entirely different matter. Some gamed and some worked their asses off. The funny thing is that the guy that starts a company typically is lousy at running it when it gets big. Not always but usually there are two separate temperaments. The company starter is usually a risk taker and likes control and they don't usually fit a cautious corporate culture.

[ashling]

4. company starter is usually a risk taker

an idea type who is interested in creation and innovation is not usually a game playing corporate type

[scentopine]

2. Executive pay is hush money - for fraud and outsourcing

to India where employee benefits like health care are of little concern. Exectuive MBAs are strip mining every asset in America that can sold overseas.

[metapunditedgy]

3. Good point... funny how the big payouts come as an exec *leaves* a company.

Guess the corporations want to keep those skeletons buried...

[Maru Kitteh]

5. I like how you think! That's an excellent observation. n/t