Industrial revolution brought many jobs to the economy and invented many many things
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Magulang ang siyang kaagapay sa ating buhay ,
At naging sa pagtahak silay ating taga-gabay".
No, most weren't successful. The Sacramento Bee newspaper reported that "one in every five miners who came to California in 1849 was dead within six months." Those who lived to tell the tail found the work very hard. Most of those who became wealthy off gold were (1) lucky and (2) found their gold during the early days of the Gold Rush.
Actually, alot of those who got rich off the gold rush were the ones who ran businesses to support the prospectors' needs for clothing, equipment, etc.
Generally speaking, yes, many of the early philosophes were optimistic about the future of humankind because they saw in man an individual nature that was separate from that which ties man to the state or polis--meaning that they saw in man an unrestricted ability to achieve any goal.