Camille Kelleher
After my
reading this week, I wanted to compare the events in Atlas Shrugged to present
American institutions. I brainstormed a few comparisons like the similarities
between Washington DC politicians in the book and those currently in Office,
how Obamacare is a duplication of Directive 10-289, and the parallel between large
corporations’ influences in nearby cities in the book and the currently
depressed Northeastern cities that were once industrial hubs before big businesses
went bankrupt, for example Kodak in Rochester, NY. Yet, I chose none of these
and decided to replace the role of railroads in Atlas Shrugged with American
higher education.
Receiving a bachelor’s degree in 2013 is, without a doubt, less remarkable as it was to receive one a hundred years ago. Inversely, Americans continue to pay for the consistently increasing price of education. But are we still reaping the same amount of benefits from having a bachelor’s degree as we once were, say in 1913? No, we are not. Although having a bachelor’s degree is necessary to have a successful life, more and more students find it necessary to go to graduate school and burden themselves with enormous debts. When students pursue for a better life with a higher degree they consequentially create difficult financial hurdles for them to overcome in a near jobless market. This is like Dagny’s pursuit to be a victor of society, like Nat Taggart, and lead Taggart Transcontinental toward financial success in a dismal market. As she does this, she ties herself to more factors that stunt her company’s growth, like Francisco d’Anconia and her theory of the destroyer.
Receiving a bachelor’s degree in 2013 is, without a doubt, less remarkable as it was to receive one a hundred years ago. Inversely, Americans continue to pay for the consistently increasing price of education. But are we still reaping the same amount of benefits from having a bachelor’s degree as we once were, say in 1913? No, we are not. Although having a bachelor’s degree is necessary to have a successful life, more and more students find it necessary to go to graduate school and burden themselves with enormous debts. When students pursue for a better life with a higher degree they consequentially create difficult financial hurdles for them to overcome in a near jobless market. This is like Dagny’s pursuit to be a victor of society, like Nat Taggart, and lead Taggart Transcontinental toward financial success in a dismal market. As she does this, she ties herself to more factors that stunt her company’s growth, like Francisco d’Anconia and her theory of the destroyer.
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