"The harder you work, the luckier you become"

Today I sat down and read chapter 1 of Fast Food Nation before going to class and found it very interesting. Schlosser covered in the chapter Carl Karcher's life and where all of the entrepreneurs of all the big fast food chains came from. And to be honest, I had no idea that any of them started like that. It is crazy reading about someone paying $300-$400 dollars for a building or someone giving a Volkswagen Beetle for a half share of a company. This shows how much the value of money has went up over the last 100 years considering that $300-$400 will maybe buy me two books for college. Also, in the chapter it was nice to get a visual of how Southern California has went from being mostly citrus fields to being one of the most industrialized areas in the United States.