Is Industrialization Worth Human Suffering?

I do not believe that the benefits of new technologies from industrialization were worth the costs. Many people had to suffer and die to create new inventions in factories. In the Exhibit Panel “Making Human Junk” in 1912 by Lewis Wickes Hine, it depicts the process of the children going from lively human beings to “Junk”. The children begin with high wages, making quality material, to getting low wages and losing personality and any possible future that was coming their way. This is a real life depiction of The Outsiders Theme, nothing golden can stay. In the Accident Report in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania of 1907 by Crystal Eastman, it says that 526 men were killed and 509 were injured in Allegheny County alone. 70 per cent of Allegheny County workers had much skill and training, and 60 per cent had not reached the prime of their working life. These men, who have not lived for very long, and have not reached their prime’s lives were wasted. In the Picture “Factory Smokestacks” in Syracuse, New York between 1890 and 1901 by the Detroit Publishing Company, it depicts factories emitting exceeding amounts of pollution into the air. Is it worth it to let all of these factories cover the sky in smoke? In the article titled “Polluting the Environment” on Discovery Education, it says that there was so much pollution in the air that people needed streetlights to see during the day. Iron Sulfates had also killed lots of animals. People had gotten rid of so many trees (Which, by the way give us oxygen). And if that doesn't convince you , the sewage from the factories had entered the water supply giving many Typhoid Fever. In the Remington Typewriter Ad by Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict on September, 30, 1899, it’s purpose was probably to get people to buy this typewriter. Seeing the lengths that people will go to, to get people to buy a typewriter, knowing how much suffering had to happen to make it, is disgusting. Oh, whoop de doo, another 5 people got killed making this ONE typewriter. I think that the fact that so many people a willing to sacrifice a person’s life to innovate is horrible.