Mr. Bryant can’t be an Ayn Rand hero. He shows too much concern for ordinary people.
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There is no such thing as “ordinary people”. We are ordinary or extraordinary as we so choose to be. And, when we choose to be ordinary that is okay, it does not require any special treatment.
“There is no such thing as “ordinary people”. We are ordinary or extraordinary as we so choose to be. And, when we choose to be ordinary that is okay, it does not require any special treatment.”
I just got off of a call from a friend of mine in the UK. He told me an anecdote about something Ronald Reagan ran across while touring one of the space centers here in the US.
A janitor was spotted in a hallway that was supposed to be cleared by Secret Service. Reagan spotted the man, who was shuffling his rolling cart and waste bucket, out of a door at the behest of Secret Service.
Reagan saw that the man was more than compliant, and after checking with security, greeted the man in the hall.
Reagan greeted the man, and as an icebreaker asked the man what he did there at the space center. From people there, as soon as he asked the question he sort of wanted to pull it back, given the man was pushing a janitorial cart.
What surprised him was the reply:
“Mr. President, I help build the finest spacecraft on earth, and they put men in orbit, and on the moon.”
There’s no such thing as ‘only a janitor’.
I have no idea whether this story is true. The point of it remains valid.
In any significant effort, all jobs matter.