Horrible People and Wonderful Machines

These machines were the defining feature of  the Industrial and Digital Economies - both. And created their immense wealth.

How can machines create wealth? It is obvious, that they alone, are not enough. Wealth is created by human societies. But their machines gave some of them huge advantages.

The first such society was England, who invented Industrialization - consisting of Transportation (Canals and Railroads) and Manufacturing (factories). And the Steam Engine to power them.

The countries it produced (America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) also benefited from these technologies, and became rich. Holland, Germany and Japan - also.

In America, that I can speak of with some authority - since I am one. Americans have identified with their machines, to an amazing degree. This makes them super people, much better than ordinary people (including their children) - who they look down on.