Pinpoint her ideology or religion and you will find venerated figures that didn’t “provide value.” For instance if we’re talking about productive labour in the capitalist sense, Jesus didn’t have a job (for most of the bible’s narrative). Confucius? Similar story, I think. Any philosopher or religious figure…
Value really becomes subjective. If you’re a writer like Ayn Rand or George Orwell, of course you have been very successful, but many people don’t find value in your work, because they disagree with you.
Our ability to provide value is also fairly contingent on those around us, the head-start they’ve given to us, and the problems or trauma we have to overcome.
Nothing wrong with welfare, just that she’s not the best example of successful seeing as she wrote about rugged self reliance and railed against welfare while also being dependent on it.
Pinpoint her ideology or religion and you will find venerated figures that didn’t “provide value.” For instance if we’re talking about productive labour in the capitalist sense, Jesus didn’t have a job (for most of the bible’s narrative). Confucius? Similar story, I think. Any philosopher or religious figure…
Value really becomes subjective. If you’re a writer like Ayn Rand or George Orwell, of course you have been very successful, but many people don’t find value in your work, because they disagree with you.
Our ability to provide value is also fairly contingent on those around us, the head-start they’ve given to us, and the problems or trauma we have to overcome.
Was Ayn Rand on welfare?
Nothing wrong with welfare, just that she’s not the best example of successful seeing as she wrote about rugged self reliance and railed against welfare while also being dependent on it.