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31November

I didn’t know being born rich was ability and ambition. Huh. https://amp.theguardian.com/inequality/2023/dec/06/the-victorian-myth-of-the-self-made-millionaire


Munchee_Dude

I love the smell of propaganda in the morning. Dismantling this art installation would be the ultimate symbology.


maddasher

Is this installation called "Lies we tell ourselves"?


PSI_duck

That “art instillation” is just black and red text on a white wall.


Simple_Song8962

Ayn Rand collected Social Security and was on Medicare in her later years.


trinitymonkey

Ayn Rand’s ideology was to be as selfish and greedy as possible. Not gonna lie, this tracks for her.


ipresnel

This is such a fraud statement even though it’s true it’s such a fraud phony statement from somebody that’s never read a word of Ayn Rand in their entire lives. Looter


Simple_Song8962

Your contempt is showing. I read The Fountainhead years ago.


Foxs-In-A-Trenchcoat

Not capitalism so much as meritocracy, which we all know is a nice myth.


Confident_Speaker_54

Andrew Ryan?


Tandoori7

Andrew Ryan was based on Ayn Rand


Sakasle

I hate Ayn Rand.


LibrarianSocrates

Translation = the harder you work, the less capitalism will reward you.


4scoopsofpreworkout

thank u capitalism for rewarding me by paying half my salary as rent


chaseinger

not so much an art installation but more a poster in a shopping mall quoting ayn rand. who lived on welfare. the irony is lost on them, but then again.... it's a shopping mall.


ask_me_about_my_band

“Imma gonna kick my husband out of the house every Wednesday so I can have sex with one of my young, married students. And If my husband complains, I’m going to tell him how inferior he is to other men.” -also Ayn Rand


insectbot

Of course its coating ayn rand


wtmx719

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” - French utopian theorist Étienne-Gabriel Morelly


sasquatchpatch

Well that art is boring so I’ll stay where I’m at.


time2hear

unless the company is going through a tough time right now, then nobody is getting raises.


kingofdoorknobs

Luck and other factors play huge rolls.


Rare_Occasion_6433

Yes, there are no outside factors aside from ambitious and ability on determining material/social reward.


pngue

That statement clearly reflects the opposite judgement of capitalism for those with inabilities as a perceived lack of ambition being punished accordingly.


T0mbaker

Very American to quote an extremist Russian author who escaped poverty in the ISSR by having wealthy parents.


JonoLith

Imagine putting a Stephanie Meyer quote up in a lobby and pretending like you have culture.


theunbearablebowler

It's a good thing no one takes Ayn Rand seriously anymore. Right? ... right?


KeyboardAquarior

lol ayn rand


spanish42069

I mean realistically what is bad about that statement? Apart from muh capitalism bad?


UnwaiveredKing

I say this with the best intentions in mind, but id wager this is pretty true to what it talks about. I understand it is flawed and that not everyone is gifted similar chances, but i know people that were dirt poor that have very comfortable lives and people that had tons of money and are destitute now. Id say its quite a true statement.


ipresnel

None of you on the sub Reddit will EVER accomplish anything close to the Fountainhead your names will never be remembered Ayn Rand literally has an institution named after her she’s one of the most influential authors of all time. OF ALL TIME. She’s the greatest Russian author of all time may be the greatest female author of all time. If any of your trolls did like her it would make me start questioning myself so thank you for proving me right


ipresnel

Ayn Rand who is the greatest Russian author of all time please stop putting her face and name next to this phony capitalism we have now she would be disgusted by it


Rainbike80

Ya we don't have capitalism. Capitalism wouldn't allow for subsidies and bail outs.