As I was reading the article "Degree and Dollars" I noticed a couple of things, not in the book of course, I 'm talking about my surroundings. I was sitting in my room reading when all of a sudden I heard multiple dogs barking outside my house. This driving me absolutely insane I decided to move to my computer, and proceeded to put on my razor kraken headset so I can muffle the noise. As I always do though when I get on the computer I tend to "check things" this being I get on youtube, twitch, or a trading website I use. I stay on the computer for about 15 minutes before I realized I need to finish reading, and then proceed to finish reading the article. As I was reading the article and "checking things" on my computer I forgot some of the stuff I read before. So I re-read the first half of the article again and I saw President Barack Obama mentioned. This confused me, how would something like degree and dollars mention Obama, when I think Obama I think healthcare not degrees. Then it dawned on me, I remember hearing something about education back in highschool but I couldnt remember what he wanted to do with it. As I continued reading it was mentioned in the article that Obama wanted to invest into education. Once I was done …show more content…
Now before I started to write the summary I thought of a few things, people with no degrees that did well, the summary chapter, and Paul Krugmans view on this. Can I trust what he writes in this article? yes to a certain degree. It is true that you don 't need a college degree to be successful in life. As I stated in the paragraph above Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are two famous people that come to mind, Gates is the creator of Microsoft and Steve Jobs is the creator of Apple. Once I started to think about it though doesn 't it both seem like a miracle? I mean there are a lots of people in today 's society that dropped out of high school/college and are currently struggling with life. Can I stand behind Krugmans point of view? To some