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"But who made the blueprints"
Also workers.
If by workers we consider everyone, who's working with their hands and minds, getting paid for this, than I agree. It's not different from Ayn Rand's philosophy.
If by workers we consider only people who work with hands on a factory, than no. Without proper education, you can't make blueprint of machine. To be more clear - good machine.
If none of this, I am ready to listen to your explanation
White and blue collars are both working class, working class doesn't mean poor or manual labour. Either you have to work to sustain yourself or you own the "means of production" e.g. parasitic owner class, these don't do any meaningful work especially not designing complex industrial blueprints.
Wait, so if a person pays government to buy land, pays architect, providing him a job, to make a project of a factory, pays construction company to build factory, pays other different factories to buy machines for his factory, hires workers and pays them to work and produce goods is being parasite? Did I get it right?
Ayn Rand's philosophy doesn't support ill-gotten riches in anyway.
Can you elaborate on labour please? If you don't like the place you work at, you can always leave and find a better one! Will it be tough? Absolutely. Will it get better? Probably yes.
How's making products is detrimental to the rest of human society? I am sure, whatever you are using is a product of filthy capitalists. They didn't make it themselves, but have invested, organised project and manufacturing. They are on top of this product chain. By themselves those workers wouldn't be able to do this massively.
About products, I know you said it's for another time. The fact is, capitalists provide us with workplaces and products. They not doing it themselves, but the trunk of the tree. The root cause is people needs. I can't call them parasites or robbers if they earn it honestly.
Well, I am not a materialist, so I can't support you with "material conditions prevent". In my opinion, if you free and nobody forces you, than it's not labour. You can live whenever you want, or change something you don't really want.
It's cool, what you are doing, hope this gets recognition! Maybe one day you'll be as someone, who changed the way we see product production.
Maybe one day I will understand your saying about ideology, but I really don't. For me Rand's philosophy is really the best, cause it's simple and answers all of my questions. Do whatever you want with respect to other people right to live. I can't call it ideology, like can't call Buddhism a religion. Both I classify as philosophy. And mostly I unintentionally followed Rand's without knowing it.
I will try to be more careful, thank you. I can understand why is that and how people can understand simple explanations