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It's a bit of a reductionist and humorous argument here but they weighed "Stopping the Industrial Revolution" against "Certain Death", and decided that maybe the people of the future would be wiser than they were and invent a solution to the problem, similar to how they invented the steam engine to solve the issue of manual and animal labor.
Obviously that didn't really work out, because the people of the future did in fact, invent a solution, but it was completely ignored in lieu of profit-seeking.
Somehow the problem invented was technological, spanned into the natural, but the solution pending was sociopolitical.
Homo sapiens is a rare breed.
The problem was in some ways invented to cause sociopolitical problems. Or to solve them for the bourgeoise. Whichever lens you want to take to look at it. The water wheel always did exist and was for a lot of the time cheaper than coal, but more prone to strikes because location and labor was so linked.