Question

Do you think the results of the Industrial Revolution were worth the human cost? Explain your reasoning.

Answer 1

Human cost? The black plague killed a third of the world and the so called Spanish Flu killed over 18 million around 1918. Yes the industrial age made war a more efficient killer but war has always existed in human history. The advancement of knowledge has made many thing possible, some good and some bad, but like anything it's what man decides to do with it that's important. Woman gained the right to vote in 1920 but what really gave them some freedom was the washing machine. Sometimes it's hard to look back and see things in their eyes and not our own, the younger generation, especially in this county, my not know what it's really like to feel starvation except maybe the addict trying to recover.