Rand thought that Kant had set out deliberately to destroy the human mind and was the most evil man in history.
Fuck Rand. She isn't even on the same planet as Kant.
That is interesting though. I haven't read much by her. I know her in broad strokes. She overlaps with Kant but goes in the opposite direction. The idea of owning yourself they both share. They are very big on owning oneself. But Kant believed in charity, goodwill, etc. Kant would probably compare these workers as lemons who are sucked dry by corporations and then disposed of.
As Jung said, what annoys us about other people tells us about ourselves. That Kant annoyed Rand tells us something. Not sure what. Kant is weird. You actually don't own yourself. His argument against suicide:
“Man can only dispose of things; beasts are things in this sense; but man is not a thing, not a beast. If he disposes of himself, he treats his value as that of a beast. He who so behaves, who has no respect for human behavior, makes a thing of himself.”
"Firstly, under the head of necessary duty to oneself: He who contemplates suicide should ask himself whether his action can be consistent with the idea of humanity as an end in itself. If he destroys himself in order to escape from painful circumstances, he uses a person merely as a mean to maintain a tolerable condition up to the end of life. But a man is not a thing, that is to say, something which can be used merely as means, but must in all his actions be always considered as an end in himself. I cannot, therefore, dispose in any way of a man in my own person so as to mutilate him, to damage or kill him. "
-Kant
