Social Workers

[BlackSabbath]

Social Workers

Re-reading Atlas and the Fountainhead, I remembered that Ayn Rand hated social workers and was disdainful about them in those two novels.

Can anyone tell me why she hated them?

[Old Geezer]

here are some excerpts from the Nationally recognized code of Social Work ethics preamble that shee might find objectionable.

"Fundamental to social work is attention to the environmental forces that create, contribute to, and address problems in living."

Environmental forces in social work generally refer to anything outside of the individual (friends, family, communitty, school etc) focusing on them as the creation of value is anti objectivist

"Social workers promote social justice and social change with and on behalf of clients

I am inclined to think that objectivists tend to view social justice and change as an investment in their own future, something not done for the sake of clients

"Social workers also seek to promote the responsiveness of organizations, communities, and other social institutions to individuals' needs and social problems"

objectivist ethics is abilities based, not needs based.

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That being said, I don't think Ayn rand was against all social workers. For instance a clinical social worker can do private therapeutic work... or a private service may hire them because they know how to get reimbursement from insurance companies (as at a hospital) another job of a social worker is to manage care teams.

also, there are some social work principles that Social workers share with Rand (self determination, a value of the importance of human relationships etc, a distaste for discrimination are some examples)