The Unforeseen Consequences of the Industrial Revolution: Increased Workload

In fact, the Industrial Revolution, which replaced manual labor with machines, had a vision of reducing human labor.

Who knew that people used to only need one shirt, but with mass production, they needed ten shirts in their closet to be comfortable? As a result, factories changed from only producing one item a day to producing ten items a day like in the past with handcraft workshops.

Because of this, after the introduction of machines, people only needed to work for one hour a day to earn enough income to avoid starvation. However, now they have to work for ten hours a day to make a living.