I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read - Foundation for Economic Education

If you can become aware of the miraculousness which I symbolize, you can help save the freedom mankind is so unhappily losing.

In a famous essay called ‘I, Pencil’, Leonard Reed pointed out that a simple pencil is made by many different people, some cutting trees down, others mining graphite, others working in pencil factories, or in marketing or management, yet others growing coffee for the lumberjacks and managers to drink. Amid this vast team of collaborating people, no... See more