I'm sorry, this is nonsense. There have been lots of periods of industrialization and they didn't all result in mass starvation and penury. In fact, many of the

I'm sorry, this is nonsense. There have been lots of periods of industrialization and they didn't all result in mass starvation and penury. In fact, many of them _reduced_ poverty by freeing people to focus on new fields in which they had a better comparative advantage than they had at ditch-digging and partially reducing the economic incentive for enslaving others.