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What Good Came Out of the Bubonic Plague?
The mediaeval economy was a lord and serf system. lords owned the land, they also owne the serfs, and the serfs worked the land for free. The bubonic plague killed upwards of 60 % of europe in 13 hundreds. This is the birth,. really, in europe, of the employment contract as we know it. It's an idea that labor has a value, and that the people who do that work should be compensated for that value.