Loss and Pain with New Technology? Was that Worth the Cost?

The inventions and innovations that are helping us today wasn’t worth the cost. Lewis Wickes Hine explains, kids in factories are turning into “junk”. Children working in factories don’t have time to get an education or to enjoy playing around outside on a beautiful sunny day with other kids because they are working in factories, dirty, unsanitary, factories. A famous line of a poem says, “nothing gold can stay”. This poem is a perfect example of what industrialization did to these kids. They were gold, sweet, nice and then they started working in factories and turning from gold into junk. According to Crystal Eastman(1916), “Allegheny County loses more than 500 workmen every year,” Crystal explains how there were so many deaths because of all the debris in the factories. The debris was negatively impacting the air, clouding up lungs and killing countless deaths. Likewise the picture capturing, what a city looked like with factories is sickening. There is smoke in the air and polluted waters. There were so many factories I could barely see the grass. According to the article Polluting the Environment,“air pollution became so heavy in industrial cities that people needed streetlights to see during the day.“ The factories made the air so polluted people couldn’t see during the day. The people just walking around during the day probably got sick because the bad air filled their lungs. There is no way I would ever think industrialization was ok.