The industrial revolution/age of the the late 1800's / early 1900's just blows me away
The industrial revolution/age of the the late 1800's / early 1900's just blows me away
I have 2 words for you, FRiend.
Profit Motive.
Once upon a time in America, the free enterprise business model, where private capital, ponied up by risk-takers, funded invention, investment and contruction.
The motivation was to gain wealth, pure and simple. It was an ugly thing, and it was a beautiful thing. It was the way it is supposed to be in the natural order of things. Competition. A free market. A meritocratic economic system where the best were rewarded the most for being the best and the mediocre languished and ultimately failed.
Sadly, somewhere along the line (I personally believe it was 1913 that was the turning point with 16A and 17A), the producers, the makers, the providers, and the creators began to be replaced by the consumers, the takers, the deprivers, and the destroyers.
Over 100 years have passed since then and it is getting worse and worse. The natural economic system has been destroyed, and the federal government has a debt service that, in 10 years time, is forecasted to have the taxpayers "on the hook" to the tune of $800 TRILLION per year... and that is just the interest on the public debt.
I believe it is only a matter of time and the whole Republic will have failed, completely.