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Wealth was quite consolidated when most population were peasants.
by lucketone 3mo ago
Wealth was quite consolidated when most population were peasants.
- tw04 3mo agoThe wealth distribution in England in the 1500s had the top 1% controlling roughly 25% of the wealth. The top 1% in America today controls roughly 32% of the wealth. Tell us more about the peasants who got significant time off because the ruling class knew endless work resulted in an unhappy populace. https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_...