It is a tragic irony that industrialization could have liberated humanity, we could all be pursuing what we love and let the machines handle the dangerous and boring tasks. Instead of having a civilization of artists and craftsmen, we are left with people desperately seeking jobs to earn almost enough to survive the same old way as before the machines came along. It once took a team of swarthy men all day to remove one big tree from the woods, now machines can take out a huge swath of forest in a day, but loggers still barely make enough to feed their families.