Letters

Don’t cut it

Thomas Thwait’s book, “Toaster Project” about building a toaster from scratch, is a great illustration of what a bright, motivated, hard working individual entrepreneur can accomplish. He mines for and produces his own steel, makes plastic from oil, smelts copper for electrical wire, and for thousands of dollars in about nine months, produces something resembling a toaster.

It won’t make toast and just might electrocute you, though.

The point? Without the foundation provided by our whole society, past and present, individual talent and hard work just don’t cut it in an advanced so...