Private Property

Private property in the United States is what makes the business world go round. It is the driving force that makes businesses invest and therefore produce. Private property being the essence of production is a reasonable conclusion to make. Would you spend money to build factories when facing the possibility that even though it was your money spent on the construction, it would not technically be under your ownership? These struggles are most clearly represented in the failures of communist regimes such as the government that has ruled over China. Since the end of China’s most predominantly communist era, China, whose national anthem is literally titled “March of the Volunteers”, has had to cut back on its regulations. They had not realized that economies work in a way that could never be managed or reproduced by man. These are the same ideas that Wesley Mouch, James Taggart, Dr. Floyd Ferris, Orren Boyel, and Mr. Weatherby do not understand, as evident in the passing of Directive 10-289.

Although I find Ayn Rand’s writing in Atlas Shrugged very true interesting observations of problems that have faced humanity, and continued to plague us, I’m starting to feel that I’ve heard the same argument over and over again. I feel that the basis of each argument is that same, that she argues that there are only a select few special people who are the only competent ones in the world. There are always going to be the Albert Einstiens and the Steve Jobs, but no one could ever support a claim that extreme.