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Isolation, sure. But unemployment is unavoidable when hundreds of thousands of people die.
by colinmhayes 6y ago
Isolation, sure. But unemployment is unavoidable when hundreds of thousands of people die.
- HPsquared 6y agoDuring the Black Death, wages rose dramatically due to a shortage of workers. Economically speaking, depopulation is quite good for the survivors.
- thehappypm 6y agoHow does that make sense? In a dumb sense, if a factory worker drops dead, a job just opened up.
- colinmhayes 6y agoThe factory worker didn't die, people stopped buying the factory's product so they were laid off.
- umanwizard 6y agoHow so? Almost 3 million people die every year in the US.