The industry is oriented towards the transformation of natural raw materials.
Industry is a term that refers to the group of operations carried out to obtain, transform or transport natural products . Originating from the Latin word industria , the term is also used to name the installation reserved for this kind of operations and the set of factories of the same type or in the same region (as occurs, for example, with "the textile industry " or when speaking of "American industry" ).
Just as agriculture represented a great step forward for man and marked the beginning of the transformation of the environment to satisfy his needs, industry became, thanks to technological advances, the driving force of economic development from the 19th century onwards. The industrialised countries (those that had the factories and technical resources to carry out mass production) became rich, while the agricultural countries (generators of raw materials) were unable to survive.
However, it is important to note that investment capital for industry initially came from agriculture itself. That is, profits from agricultural activities were invested in the industrialization of products and in the means of transportation that were considered appropriate and indispensable to facilitate international trade.
Industry activities
The transformation of raw material into a product with a specific characteristic is known as manufacturing . Therefore, the products we usually use are manufactured by some industrial company .
More complex products, such as cars , are created in different stages. Therefore, the same industry may involve several production processes and even complete the production of the good in different factories.
The processes carried out by an industry can be varied.
Loss of control
Only 20 years ago, the big producers, the world- renowned companies, seemed to rule the world. Their only threats were their competitors, and a balance was maintained in which the consumer's task was merely to work to save the money needed to buy, buy, buy . No one wondered if this situation would be interrupted, since the market monsters were seen as demigods, the only ones capable of producing the products that people loved so much. But no one counted on the modern version of the Adam's apple: the Internet .
Education, as oppressive governments know well, is a double-edged sword; it turns an ignorant and manipulated person into someone capable of seeing beyond, of thinking for themselves, of making their own decisions. And, analogy, these multi-billion dollar corporations controlled their consumers like puppets for years; but that ended the day people had access to more information.
Industry and the Internet
The problem arises when the knowledge accessed is incomprehensible to the subject; at that point, there can be three very different cases: to stand aside and not give an opinion, or to try to learn enough to understand the subject, or simply, the most common option, to make incorrect and indiscriminate use of these concepts, avoiding the fatigue of delving into them. In this way, the Internet has gradually become the worst enemy of companies and artists , whose products are subjected to exhaustive analysis and exposed so that everyone can see their defects.
Once the true cost of manufacturing a household appliance is known, thanks to numerous sites dedicated to disassembling them and revealing all their secrets, consumers demand a reasonable price. Once it is known that a singer lip-syncs, after scrutinizing each of his performances, people become upset and the merciless criticism begins. The giants no longer reign; their only solution is to pretend to be on the side of the people, to avoid the billions of Lilliputians from attacking them and devouring them in seconds, as they have done with so many of their colossal companions.