What is Best for Society

The people in favor of the Equalization of Opportunity are constantly deciding what’s best for society, yet there is no example’s of things wrong with society that they are trying to fix. They say they must concern themselves with what the people need, but there are no examples of the peoples’ deprivation. Those in who believe the Equalization of Opportunity bill have direct benefits, yet the benefits for “society” and “the people” are ambiguous and not defined. I thought of the conversation between Mr. Eubank and the girl in the white dress as a smaller version of what is happening on a larger scale. Mr. Eubank thinks that it’s not good for society to have only a couple extremely prominent writers or books. The girl in the white dress though thinks about what the people actually want, but Mr. Eubank thinks that’s irrelevant. It makes me think if what the people want is in correlation for what’s best for society. For example if Taggart Transcontinental is not a good railroad in Colorado so the people choose to use the Phoenix-Durango Line, is it better for society for Taggart Transcontinental or smaller railroads to have a chance, or whether the people are right in choosing the bigger and better Phoenix-Durango Line as their preferred railroad line. The fundamental error in trying to provide what the people want or what society needs in the book is that none of these people trying to change the world are you average person in society. None of them know how it is to not be on the top financial end of society, yet believe they are making the best decisions for society as a whole. Francisco’s speech to James captured all the faults in the Equalization of Opportunity bill’s way of thinking. However, part of me still likes to look in the positives of that bill, and look in the negatives of Francisco, Dagny, and Hank’s way of thinking.