Progress does not reduce the number of problems in the world, it creates more. An example of this would be The Great Depression. In the early 1900s leading up to The Great Depression, Americans found new ways to boost the economy and benefit the lives of citizens. New inventions were made, credit was introduced, and stock markets boomed. This “solved” the problem of poverty and old times that Americans were used to and Americans couldn’t control themselves. What they did was they bought so many things because of a new boom in the advancement of technology and invested all of their earnings hoping they would finally have the American dream. They used credit to buy furniture, cars, televisions, and whatever else you could think of and invested
