Succesful rich people vs. everyone else

Wendell Pfeffer

Atlas Shrugged

Successful rich people vs. everyone else

        After reading many chapters in Atlas Shrugged I begin to notice the hatred people have towards the successful and wealthy business owners. The business owners that I am referring too are Dagny, Hank and Francisco. For Dagny, when she finished the John Galt line everyone was so surprised when her idea turned out to be successful. Dagny was criticized by everyone even the government during the construction of her line, when it was complete she proved everyone wrong. Many people including Liddian were determined to scorn her and view her as greedy because of the millions of dollars she was going to win with the completion of her line. Her own brother even insults her calling her “a hard, insensitive woman who spends her life building tracks and bridges.” Jim can’t help it that her sister is much brighter than he is in terms of earning money. So he looks towards adapting a good relationship with the public and viewing money as “the root of all evil” because that is what her sister can’t do. This is also a problem the public has towards the other successful business owners. Instead of congratulating their hard work and achievements they try and convince them that what they are doing is wrong because they are not giving enough of their money or business to the betterment of their society as a whole. Hank is the person that is mostly criticized because of this idea. He created the most efficient metal the world has ever seen, but yet he is hated by most of the public, why is that? Well because most people in the book think that Hank is using the metal just to increase his profits and not giving enough to others. People also think he is not giving smaller business owners a chance to survive. As for Francisco, people hate him for having established successful copper mines all over the United States. I mean a lot of people hate him, but the only people that are entitled to hate him are his stock investors. Francisco blatantly wasted their money on purpose when they were trying to increase their revenue. I believe people should start thanking these major business owners instead of criticizing them because they provide jobs, money, supplies and a better economy for the United States.