This is the first of a multipart series on wealth inequality.
In the wake of the Black Death good help was hard to find. The plague had wiped out anywhere from a third to half of the population, decimating the serfdom so thoroughly that demand for labor soared. The survivors expected higher wages from a desperate aristocracy, and Europe’s wealthiest fami…
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