PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agoAh! The idyllic past!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1120arrow-down10
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minus-squaresuperkretlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·12 hours agoIn Capitalism, the death of 1/4 of the population would just further concentrate the wealth at the top.
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-212 hours agoNah, they need the workers to leech from. Think how much power the workers got from Covid as it was, losing less than 1% of the population; can you imagine how much in-demand labor would be with a 25% loss of supply?
minus-squarelimer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 hours agoHuge boost for working people. People were able to negotiate for better pay, and travel to another employer if the pay was too low. It was a social revolution for the survivors. But it was more like a 50 to 60% reduction in supply. That Black Death did not mess around
In Capitalism, the death of 1/4 of the population would just further concentrate the wealth at the top.
Nah, they need the workers to leech from. Think how much power the workers got from Covid as it was, losing less than 1% of the population; can you imagine how much in-demand labor would be with a 25% loss of supply?
Huge boost for working people. People were able to negotiate for better pay, and travel to another employer if the pay was too low.
It was a social revolution for the survivors.
But it was more like a 50 to 60% reduction in supply. That Black Death did not mess around