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Re:The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation by quxpar on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:46AM (#30073095)
Worked great during the (surviving) workers during the bubonic plague. https://history.wustl.edu/news/how-black-death-made-life-bet...
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Re:The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation by randomdata on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @12:22PM (#30074651)
Worked well if you liked counting money. But if you liked spending it...

"Thus the undisputed rise in nominal or money wages following the Black Death was literally ‘swamped’ by the post-Plague inflation, so that real wages fell." https://ideas.repec.org/p/tor/tecipa/munro-04-04.html

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