Today, we look back at the Industrial Revolution and we see images of mass production, poor labor conditions, crowded cities, sad faces, and filthy environments. But people don’t even think about it, but that time period is much like the business industry today! For example, in the past, people were mainly focused on mass production, and today, we try to create and sell the newest and coolest things as fast as possible before the next thing is created then we sell than at a fast rate. Another example of how the Industrial Revolution and today’s industries are similar are that the owners don’t have a very good personal connection with the workers. I, personally have worked in a big time place, Kings Island, where the owner is in charge of multiple multi-million dollar theme parks across the country. He has only come into Kings Island one time in the 3 year span of time in which I have worked there, and he didn’t stop once to talk to employees, or supervisors, or anyone who was in higher authority there, except maybe the manager and head business promoters of the park. Very similar to my situation, back in the Industrial Revolution, the many, many workers who worked the dirty, filthy factories, didn’t even know who they were working for, or who their boss was. If I had to choose a time period back then, I would most definitely prefer living in the agricultural lifestyle that people lived in before the Industrial Revolution took over. I mean who wouldn’t? I’d get so much gratification out of the things I make myself in my home, and make money off of it, rather than making something in a factory next to people I don’t even know, making some weird thing that is going to be sold by the company for more money than even I make. 

I took the footprint quiz and it said that if everyone lived the lifestyle that I live, it would take 5.01 Earths to sustain that lifestyle. To me, that doesn’t seem too bad, but at the same time, it seems way too extreme. It doesn’t seem too bad because most people end up with like 8 and a half of 10 Earths because of how they live. 5.01 just seems like a number that makes me feel like I’m living a normal lifestyle and that things need improvement, but at the same time, things can stay the same. It seems a way too extreme, also, because it’s 5 FREAKING WORLDS!! We can barely manage this one! Let alone 5 worlds being managed by if we can barely handle one world keeping peace, five worlds would basically become “War of The Worlds” Reality!