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Unemployment before industrialism 2017-08-18 05:32:15 Post No. 3261362
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Back in the day people just had to work the land and they got some food, maybe a house, or in the case of nomads just move, etc but somehow people always had something to subsist
From the industrial society onwards it seems that mass unemployment becomes a thing with people who cannot fit into the job market, with the continuous automatization that eliminates jobs and now also with technocrats and corpos forcing rural people into the cities where they end killing themselves or end on crack/prostitution
Is it a modernist problem? How was it before?
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>>3261362
>but somehow people always had something to subsist
Actualy, no. Not everyone who worked the land owned land, and I'm not talking about serfs. Rural laborers hired by owners of hugue amounts of land existed and, in some places of europe and the world, were the majority of working men. The life as one of this laborers was harsh as they needed to be constantly looking for work and often starved because they weren't hired.
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>>3261362
>but somehow people always had something to subsist
If you ignore all the hundreds of millions of people who starved to death and the billions of people that died to preventable diseases then yeah it was a time of plenty. The idea that everything just werked and fell into place before the steam engine came and made everything too complicated is dumb. Stop romanticizing the past.
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>>3263112
>Stop romanticizing the past.
Seems like a nerve was touched
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