The Black Plague and the Rise of Commercialism

There's a disruption in social order. People move around and more importantly, there's a labor shortage. Because of the chaos around you, you can actually make a difference to your own life through your own effort. And strangely enough, all of this is forms a weird kind of consistency. The world actually isn't fundamentally ordered. We impose an order like God does and by my willpower, I can change my status. I can make myself into something different. This is like magic."