[blam]

In my anthropology studies, I learned that labor was almost unaffordable after the plague. The survivors of the plague had inherited so much from all the relatives that died that they didn't need to work.

[Perdogg]

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[ThomasMore]

...one step further...

modern economic crisis...

let’s start WWIII...(or other mass mortality devices)

Don’t push off this thought as conspiracy thinking. Too many elites love this idea.

[ClearCase_guy]

Bird flu will save us all.

Well, not all.

[SIDENET]

The real headline should be:

"Europe's finances so bad that Black Death seems a viable solution."

[Tijeras_Slim]

Good times unless you’re one of the ones on the cart.

[C19fan]

Just look at all the laws the aristocracy passed in an attempt to keep their peasants from moving for higher wages.

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Actually this is no big revelation. It is generally recognized by historians that the plague had the dubious benefit of leaving the survivers with more wealth and opportunities due to the demographic vacuum it created in its wake.

[chajin]

What had been keeping the labor market in check throughout the European Middle Ages were the Crusades. To oversimplify the picture, every generation or so starting around 1095, perhaps 100,000 Crusaders were sent off to the Holy Land, where most of them either died or stayed (and then died), allowing feudal Europe to perpetuate itself. After the Black Death, Europe is never again overpopulated, except in one demographic: by the 1600s, there were too many nobility to allow them all to be landed gentry, which is why so many of them migrate to the Americas.

[Vigilanteman]

In my anthropology studies, I learned that labor was almost unaffordable after the plague.

Labor didn't become unaffordable due to the inheritances so much as due to the reduced supply which bid prices up.

Under feudal Europe, most of the people were so poor as to not be able to leave much of anything to inherit.

The bid-up in the price of labour made it more valuable and led to the rise of the middle class. Think of poor immigrants who initially left cities and factories in 19th century Europe where wages were poor, moved to American cities and factories where they were better and ofter moved even further west where labor was even in shorter supply and wages were better yet.

This is how we built our own middle class and why the elites seek to halt such growth by flooding the country with third worlders to bid down the costs of labor.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

This author probably doesn’t account for how the scientific advances of the Medieval Renaissance were brought to a screeching halt by the plague.

Who knows how far our understanding of the natural sciences would have advanced had the major players not been killed off.

[null and void]

In my anthropology studies, I learned that labor was almost unaffordable after the plague. The survivors of the plague had inherited so much from all the relatives that died that they didn't need to work.

An in my studies I learned that anybody who wanted to work could get a job!