/lit/ - Literature

>>13290671
Idiot, you again equated self-sufficiency with isolationism. Self-sufficiency merely means to rely on your strength and creativity to live by not giving up your means of volition and survival to another. Hence, to steal from others or to rely on slaves is to deny your strength and creativity by relying on the strength and creativity of others.

To give an example, being a NEET is to lack self-sufficiency. You rely on either your parents or the government to survive. While you may say that you are the master and that your parents or the government are your slave, you are still reliant on them to further your well-being. NEETs regularly act smug that they have more free time over wageslave cucks but this is only because they do not enact their means to be self-sufficient and are reliant on others to provide for their survival. If the government were to stop giving funds or their parents were to die, they would lack the proper strength and creativity to survive. By giving up their means to be self-sufficient, it may provide short term benefits, but it stagnates their strength. This applies similar to the master-slave relationship, something even Hegel discussed that the master is nevertheless reliant on the slave for affirmation. If a master is unable to live for himself and needs confirmation by a slave, is he truly the master? The answer is to give up needing slaves and live by your own effort.

Ayn Rand emphasizes this in The Fountainhead with Howard Roark and Toohey. Roark lives by his strength and creativity (strong enough to work at a coal mine and skillful to be an independent architect as an architect). At the midpoint of the book, Toohey seeks to undermine Roark's architect career and ends up having one of his buildings demolished. They meet up only once in the book, and Toohey asks Roark 'what do you think of me'. Essentially rephrasing the whole 'the master needs the slave for validation'. But Roark states: 'I don't think of you'. This is what it means to be self-sufficient: not caring for others by only relying on your strength and creativity to live. It doesn't mean to ignore that others exist, but that your life is not dependent on others to the point of not being capable of enacting your volition and strength.

If you work by what you get and trade with others on equal means, there no exploitation and both parties benefit. You don't rely on others in such transactions. Your life remains your own, as is your strength and creativity. You provide a service and you exchange it for something else. It's the basic means of trade. Your idiocy is conflating all possible action to theft or be robbed. Which begs the question of where does wealth come from if the thief has to rob someone with wealth and the person that is robbed has wealth to be robbed? You don't have to be either: live by your own strength.

>>10108981
Laugh all you want, I've already won and proven my point.

>>8874532
Oh really? So there's nothing wrong with me coming to your house, raping your mother and claiming it as my own?

>>8874621
You make your own independence within the confines of civilization or you live outside of it.
It's that simple.

>>8419250
>This isn't a capitalism issue.
Uh huh
>"Fundamental and definitive statement: I will NOT read ANYTHING for free. You HAVE TO pay me. Period."
>"You can find out more about me by watching all of my reviews, and that is all I care to share on the subject."
>"Want my attention? Give me money. I will not read his/her work for free, ever, ever, ever."
>"I cannot afford to waste my time. My time is very, very valuable."
>"Novels $1/page, short material $50/hr (no guarantee of review)

Everything in the OP being bitched about is in relation to time and money, commodities of capitalism. Don't assume that because you enjoy bitching for the sake of bitching that I am also not having fun smugly posting Objectivism rhetoric against this fun. How fun to post Ayn Rand and her logic and see illogical arguments made against it.

The best American work of philosophy is the entire literary collection of Ayn Rand.

>>6022958
>imblyign