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What's really interesting about this Napoleonic Time Period is not so much how much the wealthy earned, but how little they paid their servants. Much like mode
by neilwilson 7y ago
What's really interesting about this Napoleonic Time Period is not so much how much the wealthy earned, but how little they paid their servants.
Much like modern fading businesses they had an addiction to cheap labour to prop up dated capital. Then when the mills and the mines and the factories turned up paying better wages, most of them failed to adapt. If they were lucky they sold out to the National Trust.