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You: "Workers and owners don't have opposing interests, we're one big family, management knows best and we have to be productive to succeed in life" Your boss: "I'm glad that not too many peasants will die because otherwise I'd have to pay them more, amirite fellow capitalists?"

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@thesixseas I know there's evidence for the black death thing. Do you mean there is evidence for this under the capitalist mode of production?

@JDespland How does more people not also equal lower wages today tho

@JDespland Actually England and France passed laws that prohibited landowners from offering wages higher than pre-Plague rates, as well as restricting peasants and serfs from moving for better wages and levied fines on people who gave alms to healthy-looking beggars

@alexatplay yes they are both examples of class societies with an exploited working class, but the relations of productions and therefore the mechanisms of exploitation are completely different

@JDespland But unemployment does and all over the world it was at a record low and wages started rising after 20 30 years again. So the now expected crash stopped that.

@JDespland FT is the mouthpiece of the neoliberal world order so I’m pretty sure they believe that capitalism is exactly like feudalism with more land

@JDespland But also, that isn’t even a good analysis of what happened after the Black Death

@JDespland I think the theory the FT is basing the entire article on has also been questioned (if not outright debunked). It wasn't as easy to move about under feudalism as that paragraph suggests.