Atlas Shrugged (Part II): Money is no evil
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.พ. 2013
- James Taggart: You know, money cannot buy happiness. True words were never spoken. We're no longer chasing the almighty dollar. Our ideals are higher than profit. Is there the aristocracy of money, we have...
Francisco d'Anconia: The aristocracy of pull. I mean... now it's about influence but you knew that already.
James Taggart: What I know is you need to learn some manners.
Guest #01: Ever doubt that money is the root of all evil? Here's your proof.
Francisco d'Anconia: Oh, so you think money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked yourself what's the root of money? Money is a tool that allows us to trade with one another. Your goods for mine, your efforts for mine; the keystone of civilization. Having money is not the measure of a man, what matter is how he got it. If you produce it by creating value then money is a token of honor.
James Taggart: Look who's talking about honor.
Francisco d'Anconia: But if he's taken it from those who produce, then there is no honor. And you're simply a looter.
Guest #02: Senior d'Anconia, we all know that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak.
Francisco d'Anconia: Hmm... what kind of strength are you talking about? The power to create value, or the ability to manipulate? To extort money in backroom deal, to exercise pull.
James Taggart: Alright. Just leave.
Franciso d'Anconia: What money ceases us to be the tool by which man deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips, chains or dollars; take your choice, there is no other and your time is running out.
Henry Rearden: D'Anconia, I wanna speak to you.
Francisco d'Anconia: Mr. Rearden, to whom do you think I would speak? Tell me, do you own any d'Anconia global commodity stock?
Henry Rearden: No.
Francisco d'Anconia: Good. Because everyone else in this room does and they deserve too.
Henry Rearden: What are you talking about?
Francisco d'Anconia: There was a fire at the d'Anconia ore docks in Valparaiso tomorrow morning. Among related events, the d'Anconia mines will buried under rock slides. Most of them too.
Henry Rearden: Why would you do that?
Francisco d'Anconia: Money is the root of all evil - so I just got tired of being evil. - เพลง
*Blaming money for man's evil deeds is like blaming gravity for plane crashes.*
Exactly. Like a plane needs to overcome gravity to take flight, so does man need to overcome money to overcome evil, and then we can shoot for the stars.
@@tj-co9go One can not change nature by wishing. Only eugenics can solve such problems.
Don't blame the tools, blame the artist.
A gun doesn't kill, a person does. A printer doesn't write words, a person does.
A cart full of goods cannot sell said goods, a person does.
The harder that people forget that logic, the more that this socialistic takes over, and annihilates every bit of life on the planet
Money is not the root of all evil . Its the love of money, who is the root of all evil.
Damn gravity 😅
I had the hardest time reading this book, until I got to this speech. It took me 3 years to get to it, I kept putting the book down, and going back to it. It took me 3 weeks to finish the book. Then, I turned around and reread it immediately. This monologue was the turning point for me.
It's a Cognitive Dissonance field all of us are afflicted by. Anything that's literal help, is met with a type of mental field of disinterest that makes words disappear in front of the reader, fall on deaf ears to the listener.
The best way to stop this field is have your own magnetic field.
It’s written in a 1950s dystopian style that envisions a future of decadence and hopelessness. It’s very tedious about minor details of clothing and decorations as an extension of the character. It also takes many of its characters to extremes of vice or delusion. Very discouraging to read. The movies are more digestible to modern viewers.
Had I read this in school I doubt I would’ve benefited or even finished. Now that I’ve been in the workforce a decade, I appreciate it immensely.
@@jonsmitt9769 I wish someone would make a series, the movies weren't that great ngl even tho I love Rand
@@lumberluc Nicely said @lumberluc 👍
What was it that you got from the clip? 😅
"Money will take you anywhere you want to go but it won't replace you as the driver".
I think that should have been left in this abridged speech.
A super short version of one of the greatest speeches ever written in fiction.
And we are living it today. We lost the virtue, and everyone is paying for it.
I beg to differ, the book speech is far superior!
@@MarioKL Exactly.
Money just amplifies what is in the soul of the man. They are not root of evil, the money are just a tool, and like every tool can be used for good or bad things.
Yes!!
I have long felt that money (energy) is an AMPLIFIER.
It makes you more of what you already are.
A simplified way to conceptualize it.
Questions I cherish now (and animate my life):
What is possible for a human being? (When not bogged down by unresolved trauma, some ancestral, repressed emotions and Unacknowledged fear)
Our true nature as holographic projectors creating our reality from within our consciousness: worthy to explore.
What is Reality?
Holding the question to allow your experience to show you.
When we think we “know”, we collapse the potentials.
It is more relative than we have become entrained to believe.
It is malleable.
If you love money more than you love life, something is wrong. Hank Rearden loved making things with his metal. Money was a byproduct of being a good producer. It is something he got because he was a producer of things people wanted.
It should be mentioned that Rearden and all the rest of the industrialists willingly gave up their businesses--as well as their money--because they loved life, and because they loved their minds.
Money IS life. Or, more correctly, money is concentrated life, distilled life. It stores all the things of value, or is supposed to. Most money is a fraud. Only one on one free trade between free people is really honest. When you print money, yes, things are easier. Unfortunately, one of those "things" is something called EXTORTION, stealing money through taxes.
While I don't disagree with this statement, I would like to point out that Hank Rearden himself said how all he cared about was making money in both the films and books.
Admittedly, I am taking what he said a bit out of context; and I'm just a random person on the internet, so take what I say (And everyone else says for that matter) with a grain of salt.
You completely missed the point, i admit, it’s much more brief in this version than the original in the book, maybe you should look it up- the real question being what IS money? What exactly is it supposed to be?
I’ll try to explain in short- money is supposed to be the transaction of value given for value. The reward for honest work, for the products of your productive power. Without that honest reward, and the value that backs it- production is as good as slavery, i.e., slaves do not get paid for their work. Hank Rearden did not give up money- in the world portrayed by the book and to lesser extent, the movies, the VALUE of money, the honest transaction he was owed had depreciated to nothing, it meant nothing, money had lost its true value because it was not open trade anymore, it was extortion and exploitation. If I ‘pay’ someone to buy something they do not consent to...if I ‘earn’ my money via force, the actual concept of money has been invalidated, and so has its value and meaning.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
True words.
Ricardo Montalban's too dead, and Antonio Banderas is too socialist.
Best monologue in 20th century lit, let's give it 2 minutes of screen time.
The gist was there.... but in the end, yes, the book is MUCH more thorough in his analysis as well it should. Reading the book first or second, reading the book should ALWAYS come at some point.
@@han3wmanwukong125 to be honest, there is almost no way of getting speeches into the movies if you don't want the movies to be 5 hours long, just this one speech takes like 20 minutes in the book, although it truly is much better in the book, but what isn't?
Anyone who could stand at a party like that and then proclaim money was the root of all evil is in my eyes evil.
The spectators are hypocrites to the core.
After reading this book, I have come to the conclusion that I am definitely one of the bad guys and I have no hope of ever becoming one of the good guys
Then, you didn't fully understand Galt's speech. You have a choice. You don't have to be a millionaire to stand against looting and the worship of non-existence.
I think that Francisco D'anconia is the ultimate sigma male character of all time. In my opinion, he'll never be matched. He's my favorite character of all time.
Damn!!! The one playing d'Anconia is perfect for this role. Had someone along with the same appearance as him when I read the novel. The wisps of white hair, sharp intelligent eyes, and quite an aura about him. He must have read his role before playing it.
totally agree if hollywood wants to make a really good atlas shrugged movie he would be perfect
Not the biggest fan of this book, but this movie nailed Hank Rearden.
*The actor did an okay job with the role of Francisco D'Anconia but he did not look how the character was portrayed in the novel - very tall, with piercing blue eyes.*
DAMM Howard Hamlins in this flick?!?! Sick!
This scene has never been prevalent than it is today especially in the UK.
I think you mean relevant. Or timely.
Fantastic Clip from a great movie - Thank You for posting it - I link to it all the time.
In a way, this speech or rather, the one in the book (which they should have kept in its entirety for the film), was more powerful in my mind, than John Galt’s radio broadcast.
Greatest speech on money ever!
Scriptures says says the love of money is the root of all evil
But what is the understanding of love?
Love is showing that you care for an idea, person, place, or thing. You love an idea? You act on it. You love a person? You care for them.
You love a place? You keep it clean, and neat, while thinking of ways to make it better. You love a thing? You do what is necessary to keep it in good condition.
Do you love the Holy Bible just because? No, you love it because it taught you, through a window of the world, about the ideas, the places, the people and things others have loved.
This is Grey Territory when you treat a book with highlights, bookmarks, and folds as reminders for yourself.
To Love Money is to have an understanding of it. But when that love is tainted through the looters and moochers of the world, then you say, "My love for this money, has become the root of all evil." A sensible person would let go of it, while an evil person would hold on to it, and use it as a means of enslavement to other men.
Damn powerful scene!
Truth!
The (LOVE) of money is the root of all evil. Money is a tool of measurement (of produce or of pull/influence).
The greater evil is not greed, it’s pride.
But what is the understanding of Love?
Love is having an understanding of how things work.
Do you love your clothes? Then you care for it. Do you love your tools? Then you fix them. Do you love your land? Then you cultivate and build something with it.
The Love of money is the root of all evil, is equal to saying the love of a national economy is the root of all evil.
Money is a tool. An agreement between both parties, but will come under fire when the acquisition of said tool was gained through looter and moocher efforts.
Then it's no longer an agreement, it's a slavery. Men using other men for their efforts.
I think this outlines a good nuance that people don't get when I talk about this issue, I don't mind people who got their money fairly, and were good producers and treat all involved fairly, I do not like people who use the money they gain to rig the system more to their favor, and exploit others. Do not be overly kind nor overly greedy, if you can walk a middle line, all will benefit. Though I think it's gone very far in one direction. The problem is there is only so much that can be produced legitimately, yet con games are infinite. More people in our age seem to prefer con game or have no other choice, or they do produce but rip off the people they deal with.
There is not a single Republican now or ever, that does not INSIST that there IS a legitimate reason to steal money through taxes, and that is to STEAL that money to pay for a HUGE MILITARY and a HUGE FASCIST GESTAPO MURERING POLICE FORCE......because that is the protection they need to keep running their ripoffs.
nonya Biznesses: I know you posted your remark to troll. But I will go ahead and take the bait. My advice to you: whatever you do...don't stop thinking! I am trying to save you from your ignorance!
It is 2022 and I'm ready for the gulch......
"...and your time is running out."
Common misquote. Money is not the root of all evil. The Bible states that "...the LOVE of money is the root of all evil." Other translations say : "the love of money is A root of all KINDS of evil". Look it up.
@chippledon1 -- I was looking to see if anyone had gotten it right. I'm glad you did.
Beat me to it! gonna steal this
Samuel Ventura: They are quoting the Bible whether they realize it or not.
The speech in the book actually talks about the love of money being the root of all evil and how thats not true either. Pages 403-410~ of Atlas shrugged
@@SamuelVenturaMtz That's called an opinion.
Money can't buy happiness. What you do with it, that's another story.
then you dont know where and how to shop
An old cartoon in a men's magazine: It shows a luxury swimming pool filled with many busty topless young girls and one very happy older man. This older man look up at his male friend, who is leaning over with a smile.
The old man says, "Nope, money CANT buy happiness! But it sure as hell can buy a pool full of beautiful girls~!
!~~
jnever notice before how petty Lilian acted in that scene.
money can't buy happiness, but i bet it can rent it for a very long time
if it flies, floats, or fucks rent it.
@@henkrearden4282 Hank how is the steel coming along for your company?
screw your feelings pretty good
@@henkrearden4282 probably pays a lot more than being a teacher
Right off the bat I see a similarity with "Wall Street". Anyone else see that? Just started the novel, its pretty intimidating size wise. This will take awhile.
The LOVE of money is the root of all evil. GET IT RIGHT!! Therefore, the love of money is NOT the root of all evil.
Damn this guy he blew up assets stocks to lower or bankrupt the stock everybody else in the room owns of company
that and all the collateral that comes with shutting down the mine: the logistic transit, the smelters, the workers, the companies, and so on... all goes belly up without the metals fromt he mine
"We're not after profit any more," he says while in the middle of a lavish party. Of course he's after money, just like most "altruistic" left-wing politicians today. Ayn Rand wrote about the wrongs of altruism but I would go further and say that people like Taggart in this novel, or Tom Steyer or Bernie Sanders in real life, they are NOT altruistic at all.
It is too bad that the abridged this speech it is one of the best examples of Randian Objectivism written... a stark unapologetic explanation of trade and honor
Francisco's money speech is not only my favorite part of the book, it is probably my favorite piece of writing. They should have kept it as is. I wish Jsu Garcia had continued the role. In my opinion, he was the best part of the 1st movie.
Ayn Rand was brilliant. All she missed was a relationship with Jesus Christ.
The speech in the book is a thousand times more powerful, and clever, and humorous. This is a very short and dry version. Read the book 📖😊
Did this movie release?
did you answer your question?
It seems like he's conflating influence with criminality while the rest fail to notice the difference............I'm gonna regret sinking two weeks of my life to reading this book I already know.
The aristocracy of PAUULLL
Why does everyone misquote that scripture? The LOVE of money is the root of all evil. Not money! I Timothy 6 : 10
These movies were awful, but i really like the cast. The director really didn´t have the ability to make the movie function
It was a bad movie, but hopefully it led a few people to study the novel as well as her NON fiction.
I just says the exact same thing. I REALLY like the casting for the major characters, but the production was atrocious. Dagny and Rearden were basically identical to how I imagined them in the book. D'anconia I imagined like Antonio Banderas, but I like this guy even better than how I pictured him. He was in Ozark as well.
Read the book instead.
I actually really like the casting for the characters for this film. But the production level is bad, and so is the script. I wish I major motion company would do a proper big budget film on this with the same actors.
Read some David Graeber (the myth of barter) :P
By the number of views here, you can tell who values money as a virtue, and the rest who value it as evil.
Well, Ayn Rand's work may be good, and probably it is, in that form or another, but Harold Covington's is a way better, and Americans should read his works, especially "A Mighty Fortress", "The Brigade" and "Freedom's Sons".
it's not the money the source of evil that stupid line it's evilness of people
Only saw part 1. Really didn't like it that much but at least it was something. Didn't even know they did a part 2 and 3 till just a few days ago. Reviews I'm reading make me wonder if I should even see them. Couldn't even keep the same cast and production staff! One of my complaints about part 1 was the casting of Dagny as a blond! Rand went into painstaking detail in the book to describe Dagny and she was NOT a blond! I hate when whoreywood screws with the book!
Your opinion is the only one that matters! Movie reviews are stranger's views!
Money is not the reason for life. Money doesn't make you a better person. If all you do is work for money then your sadly misled.
i don't understand the casting. i love the book, i hate this movie.
I'm not a fan of how the actor delivered this speech, or alot of the adapted writing.
Not bad...but he misses an obvious point. Money is power, and power can be used to create or destroy. Dollars or chains? What's the difference? Both can be just as effective in achieving the same result.
He addresses that very point in the video if you re watch it. Money is not power. "the power to create value, or the ability to manipulate. when money seizes to be the tool in which people deal with each other then there is no other...blood, whips" When people manipulate they use money as a tool for power. money is not power. it addresses that it needs a person to strive after power. Objectivism is tough because it requires individuals to constantly use reason all the time in every situation. In a thinking society, those that strive after power through manipulation would die and never last, i.e. Donald Trump would not have the money has without using the government in business, which wouldn't happen in a capitalist society.
Read what HumanKludge wrote to you. Hopefully you'll re-evaluate what you wrote.
+HumanKludge No other tool? Mutual respect, empathy, companionship, being part of a greater whole, a sense of purpose within a community, being connected the great continuity of mankind, these things have no place in human behavior? I would not call myself a professional historian but that does seem to contradict a lot of human history. And if money is not power onto itself how do you explain the rise of banks and other financial institutions? What about the Rothschilds and the Medici?
As for manipulation, well I guess to a point it does depend on how one defines 'manipulation.' Doesn't a merchant 'manipulate' people into buying his goods? Isn't John Galt 'manipulating' people to join his strike and isn't Francisco trying to 'manipulate' people to change their way of thinking? Okay, maybe i am nit-picking here but the point i am trying to illustrate is how things aren't as simple and well defined as we often like to think, that the line between black and white is not as easy to find as one might think.
+jim Duke "What is truth?" people have been arguing over the answer to that question for the last 5,000 years and will be arguing about it for another 5,000 years, assuming there will be anyone left to argue about it in 5,000 years.
"the real root of evil is-envious and vindictive humans" yeah, who can use money to in-act their vengeance upon their enemies. Money in and of itself is not evil, but this idea that it is the exclusive tool of 'producers' and 'makers' and that it can't be used by 'moochers' or 'looters' is simply absurd. "The measure of a man is how he got his money" what about what he does with it?
+jim Duke It's interesting how people have painted 'theft' over the years. About 200 years ago we called it 'manifest destiny' when kicked the Cherokee out of their own farms at gun point. A couple decades ago when someone tore out the orchards palestinians had planted and worked for generations, Ayn Rand called it 'progress'
If truth is truth, then what do you do when the truth is not what you want it to be?
Fucking terrible.