Question

Richards arkwrights machine changed society into a consumer society according to the video what does that mean?

Answer 1

The correct answer is we could produce more stuff, stuff that people actually wanted.

Richard Arkwright’s machine changed society into a consumer society, which means that we could produce more stuff, stuff that people actually wanted.

Richard Arkwright’s (1732-1792) was an English inventor and industrialist. He revolutionized the industrial world with one of his inventions: the water frame machine that used power-driven machinery that was used in textile factories to improve the manufacture process. Without doubt, Richard Arkwright’s machine changed society into a consumer society, which means that we could produce more stuff, stuff that people actually wanted. People began to buy more things and the fabrics produced those things people demanded.  

Answer 2

The consumer society is a socioeconomic concept with which states are called industrialist or productive capitalist development in which there is a massive consumption of goods and services, as a result of a also massive production and that the supply is wide, even exceed the demand. Consumerism is usually one of its main characteristics, which is possible thanks to the availability of cash or other means of acquisition.