Who do you think profited the most during the industrialization?
I think the middle class of factory owners, shippers, and merchants benefited the most because American cities allowed many middle-class Americans to live a more glamorous lifestyle with all the new technology and growing modern American emerging with so much new technologies available.
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Did higher paying jobs in industry have anything to do with it? Before industrialization, most people were subsistence farmers with little money changing hands at all.