Response To I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read

Read writes about the creation of a pencil. he goes in depth about how it is made. When some one thinks about how to make a pencil it seems simple. but yet it is not. Almost everyone works together, not knowing, to help create this pencil. He uses the pencil as a metaphor of the economic system.

Making a pencil seems, "simple? yet not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me." i agree with that because it goes on forever. In order to do that you need to know this and it continues, which is the same for the economic system. Read also says, "There isn't a single person in all these millions, including the president of the pencil company who contributes more than a tiny, infinitesimal bit of know-how." He says this statement a lot in many different ways. Just like in the economic system, everyone is apart of it but yet no one knows exactly how it works. Another thing that reads says, which was twice is, "If you can become aware of the miraculousness which i symbolize, you can help save the freedom mankind is so unhappily."

The significance of all of this is too show that everyone has a part of the creation of a pencil and the economic system. for example with out the poor, the rich would not be rich, therefore the rich needs the poor and the same for the poor.