{"id":1700,"date":"2018-02-05T21:14:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T21:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2018-02-05T22:29:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T22:29:55","slug":"industrial-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1700","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the book <strong><em>A Farewell to Alms (A Brief Economic History of the World),<\/em><\/strong> author Gregory Clark writes of the Industrial Revolution: \u00a0&#8220;The classic description has also suggested that significant technological advances across disparate sectors of the economy contributed to growth during the Industrial Revolution, again pointing toward some economy-wide institutional change or equilibrium shift.&#8221; \u00a0And it would &#8216;shift,&#8217;\u00a0<em>dramatically<\/em>. \u00a0While there was economic benefit to many across a spectrum now with the Industrial Revolution, other things came with it as well. \u00a0With mass production came a &#8220;throw-away&#8221; society orientation. \u00a0With heavy industry came more and more pollution. \u00a0What&#8217;s more, assembly line workers putting, say, one part in a car eight hours a day often undercut the essence of &#8216;work and human dignity.&#8217; \u00a0On balance, `the Industrial Revolution might not have been such a good thing, huh. \u00a0But nobody (but the Old Order Amish, etc.) stopped to question it. \u00a0Most just got swept up in it. \u00a0Our administration would push for a return to an agrarian-based society that revolved around Decentralism. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/agriculture\">See&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the book A Farewell to Alms (A Brief Economic History of the World), author Gregory Clark writes of the Industrial Revolution: \u00a0&#8220;The classic description has also suggested that significant technological advances across disparate sectors of the economy contributed to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1700\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}