Uma coisa no debate da desigualdade que nunca aparece, é que nunca ninguém comenta a brutal diferença que existe entre alguém que cria um negócio que serve milhões ou um bilião de outras pessoas de alguma forma, versus alguém que nem sequer a si próprio se consegue servir e necessita de apoios para se alimentar, vestir, viver sem ser um marginal...
Ou mesmo a diferença entre alguém que colabora no primeiro projecto (sem ser o seu fundador), versus alguém que está na segunda situação. A produção deste trabalhador para os outros é infinitamente superior à do segundo indivíduo, porque o segundo tem um rendimento negativo (ou zero, se quisermos ser simpáticos). E mesmo acima desse patamar, ainda existirão diferenças de 10x, 100x, 1000x, 10000x entre umas ocupações e outras (já remuneradas).
Essa glorificação individual é uma repetição dos livros de história ou poemas épicos que atribuem ao rei ou ao general todo o mérito nas vitórias militares, não tem nenhum cabimento.
Se não tivesse existido o Sam Walton o Wal Mart não existiria, mas o panorama do comércio a retalho seria idêntico (possivelemnete com empresas mais pequanas), se não tivesse existido o Steve Jobs ou Bill Gates aí talvez tivesse exitido um atraso de meia duzia de anos (no maximo) mas revolução da informática pessoal teria existido à mesma.
vem do atlas shrugged...; os super-homens capitalistas; o ubermensch nietzchiano. todos princípios económicos libertários vêm do atlas shrugged.
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Randian hero
The Randian hero is a ubiquitous figure in the fiction of 20th-century novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, most famously in the figures of The Fountainhead 's Howard Roark and Atlas Shrugged 's John Galt. Rand's self-declared purpose in writing fiction was to project an "ideal man"—a man who perseveres to achieve his values, even when his ability and independence leads to conflict with others.
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Generally a Randian hero is characterized by radical individualism, moral resolution, intelligence/aptitude, self-control, emotional discipline, and (frequently, but not always) attractive physical characteristics in the eyes of other Randian heroes. Rand's heroes are tall, strong and upright; the females share slender figures, defiant stances and the impression of internal calmness, while the males are physically hard and supple, often with gray eyes. Jerome Tuccille described U.S. President Gerald Ford as physically exemplifying the Randian hero—"tall, blond, clear-eyed, ruggedly handsome and well-built".
Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek situates the Randian hero in Rand's fiction in the "standard masculine narrative" of the conflict between the exceptional, creative individual (the Master) and the undifferentiated conformist crowd. He does not consider the Randian hero to be phallocratic, arguing that these "upright, uncompromising masculine figures with a will of steel" in effect emerge as the feminine subject liberated from the hysteria of entanglement in the desire of the Other to a "being of pure drive" indifferent towards it.
Author Stephen Newman compares the Randian hero to the concept of the Übermensch created by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, saying that "the Randian hero is really Nietzsche's superman in the guise of the entrepreneur".
Although the archetype of the Randian hero appears in Rand's earliest work (notably in Night of January 16th 's Bjorn Faulkner and We the Living 's Leo Kovalensky), its best known examples appear in Rand's mature work, specifically in the novella Anthem (1938) and the novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957).
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Howard Roark
Ayn Rand created the Randian hero in earnest in the character of Howard Roark in The Fountainhead. An architect, Roark conflicts with his profession's establishment on multiple occasions. The early stages of the novel begin with Roark being expelled from university because he refused to design in traditional styles. Throughout his career, he refuses to design according to any vision apart from his own. The architects' professional body scorns him for not paying "proper respect" to tradition, yet in the end, he triumphs.
Dagny Taggart
The protagonist of Atlas Shrugged is Dagny Taggart, described by Rand as "the feminine Roark". Atlas Shrugged introduces several Randian heroes, both in the backstory and in the primary narrative. In the story, they personify the intellect—their withdrawal from the world under the leadership of John Galt parallels the world's gradual collapse.
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