The Role Of Greed In The Industrial Revolution

Greed is the selfish desire to have more of something and taking any possible measures to obtain it. To this day, greed still exist in ourselves as citizens of the United States and therefore, in our government as well. It’s undeniable that we all contain at least a bit of greed within us; after all, greed is what keeps us motivated to work harder and help the world progress. But there are also some downsides to letting greed take control. Like the huge inequality gap America has between the rich and the poor. Not saying we should completely vanish greed from the United States(because it’s essential to progress in the country), but we should learn how to keep greed from taking over American society, because that will essentially break society

But should the government even try to control greed in our country? Should we actually allow something like greed to give us ideas that might possibly break apart our country? Is greed even good? To answer these questions, we must first examine the role of greed during the Industrial Revolution. Greed, back then, was responsible for the massive inequality gap between business owners and their workers in both economic and political power. We still haven't been able fix this problem to this day, but progress has been shown. Although greed did provide many people who just moved into the city, or who were already part of the city, with job opportunities, the payment workers received would never be enough to cover the long and painful hours they had to work in order to maintain themselves and their

Monopolists were mostly in charge of the government during the time. They came to uphold this power by satisfying the political machines with money in exchange for allowing monopolists to place rules and policies that would benefit them. The lower class were obviously extremely upset about this government system so they tried to fix the system by creating groups that go against the ways of the government. Three main groups were created because of different political views; these groups were: the populists, the socialists and the anarchists. The populists created a political party called the “People’s Party” to take down the Republicans and Democrats, and for a while, they were actually succeeding. The socialists thought the populists weren’t doing enough and believed the main reason there was even this corrupted system in the first place was because of inequality. They wanted to give everyone what they needed so that everyone was on the same level. The anarchists believed there shouldn’t even be a government at all. Everyone should just be allowed to do whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted. Although they were all different from each other, they all had a common goal: to take down or change the U.S government. And that’s how chaos erupted between the upper class and the lower class. Bombs, injuries, and deaths were all involved in this chaos. If the