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What about 500 years ago?
by kevmo 8y ago
What about 500 years ago?
- 07d046 8y agoAlmost everyone was extremely poor then too. You can tell from the percentage of the labour force who worked on farms that most people couldn't have been wealthy, and the industrial revolution changed everything. https://ourworldindata.org/employment-in-agriculture https://ourworldindata.org/employment-in-agriculture
- alexgmcm 8y agoDidn't living conditions actually worsen for a while after the industrial revolution though due to rapid urbanisation and slums and a lack of workers rights. Being a peasant was awful too, mind.
- singularity2001 8y agoInteresting charts, thanks. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/agriculture-value-added-per-worker-wdi https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/agriculture-value-added-p... Shocking that corn and cow producers in India are 90% less productive than in the US.
- IloveHN84 8y agoActually, from the little ice age around XVI-XVII centuries that everyone was poor, at least in Europe and Asia