Herbert Spencer (Anna Buckley)
Everyone cannot be satisfied, just as not everyone can benefit positively from something. I have studied societies for a long time, and I know that not all of the citizens can be positively impacted by the industrial revolution. There will always be two kinds of people the powerful and the powerless. Neither can benefit positively from something only one does and one doesnt. I myself don't take sides, I believe in social Darwinism or "survival of the fittest". I believe that whoever is in power should stay in power, and whoever is weak stay weak. Through this I know that not everyone can be positively influenced because there is a strong and a weak force in each society and neither can be pleased by the same thing. For the industrial revolution the power shifted, therefore one side is not in favor of the shift. In this case the wealthy are at loss. The power has gone to the workers and the land owners and away from the government and the people in charge. Now the government is unhappy and negatively impacted by this industrial revolution. Every person cannot be impacted by the industrial revolution because there is two sides to every society. While the strong is happy, the weak will always be unhappy. Therefore every citizen cannot be positively impacted from the industrial revolution.
I agree with your comment stating, "every citizen cannot be positively impacted from the industrial revolution", but I do not agree with your statement about the power being shifted to the workers. I feel as if little if not any power it being given to the workers. If you were to see this power shift happen one wouldn't see the horrific conditions in which these factory workers are living and working in.
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Adam Smith (K.Lavan) I completely disagree with you. The industrial revolution absolutely did have a positive impact on all citizens. The free market allowed goods to be cheaper and available for everyone. The poor were able to buy goods they could not previously buy because they were so expensive. The revolution had a small impact but positively effected all citizens.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with you. Not everyone can be positively impacted by the Industrial Revolution. This "Revolution" has caused a wide shift in population, creating filthy cities filled crowded with disease. Instead of relying on only our country, we should extend our trade and work more with other countries. This would eventually result in an equal distribution of citizens, in which they would be able to create their own supplies and provide the things that they need on their own.
(Adam Smith) I completely disagree with you. You said that the power belongs to the people, and that the government was negatively impacted by the industrial revolution. The thing is, Europe's economy greatly prospered as a result of the industrial revolution! Not only was there a high demand for the products being produced through the industrial revolution, but now there was also a great supply of these products! When supply and demand are both up, economy booms, which means that the government prospers. Therefore, the government was not negatively effected because of the industrial revolution, and everyone was positively effected by it.
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