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Correction: The revolution happened due to starvation. Employment and salaries are recent concepts, they have no relevance. A few hundreds years ago the large
by user5994461 6y ago
Correction: The revolution happened due to starvation.
Employment and salaries are recent concepts, they have no relevance. A few hundreds years ago the largest single concern by far was to have food on the table. There was no functional markets and no long distance transportation, you couldn't buy food if there was a bad harvest or calamity, there was no food to sale and/or the price doubled overnight.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y agoIn a way you can consider that a "salary." Whether it's an edible currency or not is irrelevant.
- Tainnor 6y agoStarvation might have been a factor in determining the course of the revolution, and might have helped it gain momentum, but I don't think it's right to say that the revolution happened "due to starvation". The triggering event was the declaration of bankruptcy of the French state, and apart from poverty and starvation, there were a lot of other factors that also helped move revolutionary ideas along.