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Without the Industrial Revolution, there could have been no massive "Imperialism", no empire building, throughout the world. That's because without the Industrial Revolution, most people would have continued to die young, of starvation, because one of the things that the Industrial Revolution brought was mechanized agriculture and the ability to feed far more people than your own country.

Without the Industrial Revolution, there would have been no trains, or steamships, or powered machinery. No airplanes, no telecommunications, no electricity. No modern hospitals, no modern medicine.

Thomas Hobbs said it best, in 1651 in his book "Leviathan"; "Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of Warre, where every man is Enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."

The Industrial Revolution has effects both good and bad. Since I'l well past the age at which that those "primitive" men died, I think the good has outweighed the bad.

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