Karisa Horsch
Professor R. Sorrell
HIST 136; Opinion 2, 3, 6
March 7th 2013
Industrialists Vs. Workers
Opinion Option #2 Today, the United States is known for being a big, beautiful powerhouse of complex industrial systems and with these industrial systems, bridges have been built, factories have been produced, inventions and workers have been put to work and thus, a new age industry arise. It’s hard to exactly pin-point exactly who to give proper credit to when it comes to this working network, however, I believe the industrialists, rather than workers, are more responsible for the development of the powerhouse nation we’re currently all a part of. What set the new industry apart from that of older America was a scale of invention, creation, and proper efficiency of resources. Industrialists started with their thoughts and made creations possible in order for America to flourish. New technologies made it possible to use resources in ways that were undreamed of before. Industrialists made railroads, boats and transportation systems possible to assist in trade and transporting goods, hiking up America’s prosperity. Industrialists, along with new technologies, made natural resources more valuable with new distilling methods and invention. Things such as the light bulb, petroleum, and gasoline have been valid in the growth of America and wouldn’t be available to us without the work of industrialists. Unlike workers, they helped create factories and assembled research labs that aided gifted inventors and produced new products that helped boom the economy. It’s their creativity, inventiveness and dedication that caused the United States to grow into what it is today. Industrialists aided mass production, making machinery and assisting higher productivity and higher profits, helping to aid the growing economy. Although there were some set-backs and dangers from these inventions and machines,