As far as I can tell, the industrial revolution was a time of economic and social progress. If I remember correctly, child labors wasn't outlawed until the gre

As far as I can tell, the industrial revolution was a time of economic and social progress. If I remember correctly, child labors wasn't outlawed until the great depression in the states. It was mainly about keeping out the competition than helping children. What people read in their history textbook are brief and history is not what they're really are. Is there really the evil of a libertarian miniarchist state? I supposed the textbook that I am taught in school seem that way. However, I learned that Standard Oil gave up trying to control the market, but it was sued anyway. Years later, I heard that antitrust laws were used to bully small corporations, not actually break up big corporate enterprise. Big corporations have better lawyers and better resources to defend themselves so they were left alone. American writers once used natural laws and natural laws to keep out British competition in the 19th century, when they advocated copyright supposedly for the benefit of British writers. If there's anything I learned, history is often sanitized by the winners. So it is better to read lot of history and learn for yourself the sinister activities of groups, no matter if they're corporations, states, and individuals. Even so, I am confused by today Americans' love of democracy and why the French celebrate the French Revolution? Collective madness is pretty evil yet everybody ignored that.