Wednesday, November 13, 2013
David Ricardo (Kyle Riggs)
The Industrial Revolution in Europe cannot please everyone. This Industrial Revolution had an instant and lastly effect on all of Europe. It changed not only Europe, but the world. The revolution had a positive effect on many people, but not necessary all people. Some working class families were too large, and this caused them to have very bad living conditions. All people could have been positively impacted if they had embraced the Revolution and worked to make their life better. The simplest way to do this was to limit family size, and work harder. Business men must focus on the big picture. They can not afford to treat all of their workers kindly, they must work to enlarge their company. The Revolution brought many changes, larger for the better, but it also made a small number of people suffer. Factory work was an improvement over farming for many reasons, but it hurt large families who's members were all forced to work because of the cost of living.
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Malthus (Michael Kowalski)
ReplyDeleteYou wretched pig! You would allow the people to toil willingly? As I said before not even God the almighty Creator could purge you of your sinful blemishes.
Mr. Ricardo, I question your sanity. You say that some working class families had very bad living conditions. Really Mr. Ricardo, some? I hope that by some you mean almost every single one. Each family member that works as a factory worker works from sun up to sun down, spending more time at the factories and mills than at home. And for what? A few dollars at the end of the day? No Mr. Ricardo it is not that some working class families are too big and therefore have poor living conditions. It is that all working class citizens are taken advantage of by businessmen such as yourself.
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ReplyDeleteHerbert Spencer (Kenny Shanos)
ReplyDeleteSorry that I deleted the last comment - I forgot to put that it was from me.
I would like to disagree with both Ricardo and Engles (Yash). I believe that the revolution did in fact benefit everyone. People form the farming class did move into cities. This was for the good of the majority, and therefore is overall positive for the people in Britain. Even though, as you stated, the people live in bad conditions, they are making more money than they did before. This increases the standard of living, which benefits the majority. My phrase, "The survival of the fittest" is exactly correct and works here. Farmers are surviving by moving to the cities. If they didn't move they would be the weakest and eventually diminish into poverty. Since their standard of living went up, this was a large gain for the majority of the people. Because of this large financial gain for the farmers as well as the upperclassmen and government, the impact of the industrial revolution had a positive effect on all of its people.