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Almost 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 wealt
by 07d046 8y ago
Almost 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.