Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad?
by thaumasiotes on Saturday August 08, 2026 @04:21PM
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Once again, that isn't a case of the peasants experiencing a labor shortage; it's a case of everything else experiencing a labor shortage, giving opportunities to the peasants.
The period after the Black Death was characterized by serfs abandoning their family farms for more lucrative options elsewhere. If the family farms needed them, that wouldn't have happened.
> Once again, that isn't a case of the peasants experiencing a labor shortage
It's your assertion that
* no peasants died during the Black Death,
* peasants owned "family farms"
* no peasant owned family farms suffered a labour shortage despite being "abandoned for more lucrative options elsewhere"
?
Okay. Sure.
With the significant exception of post plague periods during which some big changes occurred wrt landholder / serf relations, expected pay rates, part ownership, etc.
eg: (unvetted source) Worker Power: How the black death revolutionised workers rights - https://historyguild.org/worker-power-how-the-black-death-re...