Argument Essay Body Paragraph (1/2): On Selfishness

Diving into human’s past and present, we can see how self-interest exclusively results in technological and social breakthroughs that benefit our future. In the Industrial Revolution age, European countries like Britain became large powers with a large, comfortable middle class because of steam engines and the textile industry whose productivity bought wealth for the middle class. These technologies emerged from patents that the British government issued to investors, who want to earn money for themselves. They were encouraged to invent machineries for their own well-being. Adams Smith had argued for such benefits in his laisse-faire theory where the invisible hand, representing our self-interest, eventually delivers better products and services to everyone because our wants for ourselves are potent to drive us to produce the best product and service. Even in the current days, major breakthroughs in space rockets by Elon Musk’s Space X program becomes successful because his company wanted itself to profit from the U.S. government’s billion-dollar initiative and fame SpaceX had from working with NASA. The technologies they produced, whether shifting mankind from Agricultural livelihood where people are starving to convenient urban lives with much less starving or from present days to future’s potential Space exploration with potential scientific breakthroughs and resources, all signified how self-interest pushed us to develop better technologies and serve mankind’s future with greater potential.