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This is a design for one of the major players in my alternate history, in which Saara Mar "discovered" the Earth in 1970. It's a bit too humanoid, but I may end up going with it since I haven't been able to satisfy myself with more elongated and deer-like heads. The Uluriamimsi are a people fascinated by abstracts and make superb mathematicians. The same faculty that makes them good at figures, relationships and processes also makes them whizzes at certain kinds of business -- banking, mainly. Which is why in my alternate history they Uluriamimsi own something like 30% of Earth by the year 2000. However, they are not really interested in owning material things, and are apt to acquire a controlling interest in the hotel business, say ... and then give it away to the Girl Scouts to use in some charitable capacity, or to Michael Moore just to see what he would do if he were stinking rich. Or maybe to *you* so you could retire and use your remaining years to refine your artistic skills. They drive Republicans and Randroids nuts...
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Hm? Michael Moore's not stinking rich? He's worth roughly $50 million, by non-crazy hollywood sources. His home is worth a scant $2 million and is a tiny 10,000 square feet. His poverty-stricken neighbors include Madonna, Bruce Willis, and ex Chrysler chairman Bob Eaton. It's a veritable Skid Row!
I may be reading too much individualism into Objectivism, but why would Randroids be upset by Uluriamimsi behavior? It seems that these Uluriamimsi are inclined to use their strengths to acquire resources through trade and production, and once they have it, it is theirs to do with as they please. Hoard it, give it away, burn it... it was acquired through cooperative means and thus no one but the current owner has a say in how it is disposed of.
Now, if the Uluriamimsi were big on the political process and used the threat of force (e.g. government and "law") to acquire their riches, well, then it's easy to see the objection of Objectivists. (No comment on republicans as they're actually in the same camp as the democrats, technocrats, and the rest of the collectivists.)
Now, if the Uluriamimsi were big on the political process and used the threat of force (e.g. government and "law") to acquire their riches, well, then it's easy to see the objection of Objectivists. (No comment on republicans as they're actually in the same camp as the democrats, technocrats, and the rest of the collectivists.)
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