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June 23, 2005
Who Is John Galt?
It took me around twenty-one days to complete Atlas Shrugged. Three weeks is a long time for me to spend on a book, but this one had 1069 pages and the type was about an 8 font (exceedingly small). I plan to keep the remainder of my summer reading light. I’m sure that I’ll read an Agatha Christie or two as well as a few by Sydney Sheldon.
Atlas Shrugged was very thought provoking. In a nutshell, it tells the story of what would happen if the government tried to make all businesses equal. You know, what they would like to have done to Bill Gates. The stupidity of people blows my mind. He created a program, spent his time and money on it, marketed it, and then sold it. He gets the money, he gets rich – end of story. Well, that’s the way it should have been. That is, until people started complaining that he had a monopoly on the market. Give me a break! You make something, spend your money, and then try selling it. If it’s any good, it will sell; if not, you can say that you tried but, don’t get jealous because someone else came out with something that beat what you had all to pieces. We all have to face the facts that businesses are not created equal and shouldn’t be equal. If that ever becomes the case, the economy will start crumbling just as it did in this book.
There is too much story to get into. Just know that it is eye opening.
Posted by tami at June 23, 2005 7:20 PM