The Black Death: The Engine of Modernity

The Middle Ages were turned into the modern era of essentially by the Black Death. I think our global bourgeois is dead set on using the fact that they have accumulated more capital than any other ruling class in history. They're thinking, we're going to be the first ruling class to survive intact with it when the system collapses. Even if they fail at maintaining the system, they will still in some instances succeed because a lot of them have their origins as powerful, influential, successful families before that.