How come this book pisses off so many people?

There is not a doubt in my mind that Ayn Rand was autistic. I enjoy her writings a lot but it is quite shallow. If you are ugly, stupid or poor her books will offend you.

I actually really enjoyed it although it was waaay too long and the character development was pretty shit. If you approach it like a philosophy book, its a lot better. I read it in 2016 while backpacking across Cambodia. It made the experience of seeing the killing fields and witnessing what it did to the people much more poignant.

Because it keeps coming true

it's a bloated, shittier version of fountainhead

because they think "there is virtue in selfishness" means "it's good to be a total zionist jew kike cunt to everyone and hoard everything for yourself; not even your kids get a cut, fuck your kids, they can go wage at mcdonalds for 50 years after we've passed affirmative action and employment equity. fuck your kids, fuck your parents, fuck your friends if you can, your coworkers, your pets, your employees, your neighbors, your fellow countrymen and their kids—this is good because it's good for you [it's arguably not]!"
all it actually means is "one is the best person to address their own needs; nobody can definitively decide what one wants or needs better than themselves, and those who act on this principle will ultimately be acting for moral good"

>voluntarism
>propaganda
pick one and only one

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sounds like a good time desu
cant afford to spend my time like that but one day i will have that freedom.
Rand says you are accountable for everything that happens to you. This is true but not everyone has an equal starting position. Those with crappy starting positions and those who dont want to play the capitalist game will find the message offensive.

>social service workers should be paid more for their contribution! It's just as valuable
heard this from my sister just the other day.
Its like trying to get a fat guy to stop eating and get in the gym.

it's literally a tale of how mediocre people cope by despising the truly great
it's bound to piss people off by its very nature
just itt you can smell the crab in a bucket types desperately trying to claw their way to some claim of intelligence

some claim [citation needed] that a woman wrote a book.

The fountainhead was better

That's a man

Read the fountainhead.
If you think it's about economics or anything other than individuality, your looking at it the wrong way.

Hahaha the fucking ayn rand Corp took PPP money, total fake bastards.

it's the boomer bible for cuckservatives

fountainhead was better
Ayn Rand was a meth head and her writing suffered as a result
towards the end of her career she was only capable of writing essays
also her sexual liasons with Alan Greenspans friends as the "collective" was shameful
its why women should never be gurus, even Ayn Rand would agree with me

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>also her sexual liasons with Alan Greenspans friends as the "collective" was shameful
see for yourselves:
vimeo.com/80799353

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The fountainhead is more of a light bdsm fetish novel than anything else. It was amazing to me that rand could be autistic enough to reveal not only her rape fantasies, but also her inclination to ruthlessly shit test the protagonist for decades.

It’s a dull read convinced it’s portraying political realism, when all Ayn Rand can seem to produce is ideological romanticism. It’s full of long monologues and characters talking past each other. Rand doesn’t know enough about anything she writes about, giving the entire novel an uncanny feel as she describes the presumed emotions of being at the top of the steel, gold, and railroad industries without ever focusing in on the logistics in a studied, believable way. All conflicts are either revolve around political strife at the hands of the strawmen socialists or ill-defined supply chain incidents.

And then there’s the endless moralizing, where Rand tries to fight millennia of consensus by human societies, philosophers, religions, and historians. The conceit of the book is that everybody has been wrong except her, that greed is good and money’s the pinnacle of human experience. It’s a philosophy that could be interesting if she wrote from her own experiences, but she never does (at least in this book - I’m aware her earlier works are better in this sense). Instead we’re shown romanticized titans of industry - characters with no depth or flaws, because they represent Rand’s platonic ideals.

It’s not hard to see why it’s held up. Any shut-in who spends too much time in their head has had the moment where they suddenly believe everything they’ve learned is wrong, and that the secrets to the universe lie in their bored brain firing blanks. Rand speaks to these people. When writing Atlas Shrugged, she was a shut-in who lived on food stamps. She wrote a NEET fantasy where she’s the cool sexy lady who fights the evil socialists and finds the sexy ancap man who ran away from the world so that they can form not-Colorado Springs. It’s a pretentious read lacking any substance or reality; a romantic work detached from the world it tries to romanticize.

Maybe they are just stupid and can't be more clever. It's not fair, to be fair.

Written by Ayn Rand who said smoking doesn’t cause cancer and that the market should never interfere in the market.

Despite selling millions of trash books she couldn’t afford the treatment she needed for the cancer that she got from smoking and claimed social security from the government.

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Because objectivism in fundamentally and objectively a false philosophical notion, but libertarians and conservatives can’t reason their way out of a paper bag, so you get people thinking this book has good ideas, and that’s what upsets people.

its private dipshit

Oof I thought the fountainhead was worse. At least the monologues are fun to argue with. Plus I imagine Dagney is a fox. The fountainhead is just about architecture, bleh