Individuality
is sacrificing your individuality worth pursuing your dream?
going against moral values makes you less of an individual
in addition to being an individual and doing what you know is the right thing...
"In Goldman Sachs We Trust," like Inside Job, explains the risks that Goldman Sachs, along with other companies, took in order to cheat people of their money. Goldman Sachs had no problem putting their client's money at risk. With the lack of individuality of the people behind these schemes, Goldman Sachs seemed to achieve the American Dream, but the company collapsed in the end. Reflecting on the Goldman Sachs scheme, it was called "gargantuan insanity." The company owners definitely lost their individuality for standing up for what is right and fair.
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individuality comes with a cost
In the Great Gatsby, Gatsby is perceived as a prosperous, classy and mysterious character. This observation changes when Gatsby changes himself in order to achieve his dream of being with Daisy. Gatsby changes to be somebody that he is not. Gatsby began acting “like a little boy” and being extraordinarily “rude” (Fitzgerald 66). Gatsby sacrifices his true self, or his individuality, to be with the love of his life, his dream, Daisy. In “Serving in Florida,” Barbara Ehrenreich has to completely turn her life around to achieve her goal of having enough income and money to get by. This drastic changed turned her life around, and everything she knew was no longer a part of her life. Everything that had made her who she was changed. Ehrenerieich was forced to sacrifice her individuality to survive by entering a “parallel universe” and a worle of “poverty and turmoil” (Ehenreich 1). While Gatsby voluntarily changed to achieve his goal, Ehernreich had to change to barely get by.