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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jan 9, 2024 1:07:00 GMT
I'm still not sure if you're being sarcastic. When the countryside could no longer provide a subsistence income, people moved to the city, where slum housing, dangerous work conditions, exploitative working hours, prostitution and abject poverty waited to provide a subsistence lifestyle in its stead. i’m not convinced you aren’t. The Enclosure Acts forced huge numbers of subsistence smallholders off their land into towns where starvation provided a workforce all ready to be exploited by the factory owners. Remember the aristocracy owned the farming trade. They did not have a lot to do with the factories and because their labour was essentially poached, the aristocracy was dead agaisnt the factories. The factories were the leading edge in efficiency of that time so they were pretty damn rich. The other rich families came before this time and got rich from the wool trade. |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jan 21, 2024 20:28:50 GMT
I've found some photos of London for comparison a little later on, which span the last quarter of the 19c. This is a pretty large collection and covers every life from the poorest to the richest.
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Post by Orac on Jan 22, 2024 11:33:49 GMT
1) Life expectancy would have increased a hell of a lot more if many families didn't have to live in slum tenements, a whole family to a damp room. 2) Killer diseases could have been eradicated without slum tenements, low wages, and appalling working conditions. 1) Yes we know that, but it was likely because as an example, the Irish rural farmer was on the verge of starving and immigrated over to the place which had the jobs. The overcrowding was far from intentional. Industrialists often donated money to build schools and universities, and Manchester University was one such place.
2) No they could not. I have a fascinating video fir you here, to demonstrate my argument of why not. If you were a chemist, you would recognise the following tool of your trade.
Well put. Of course, if you are going to cheaply produce the equipment that allows scientific progress to accelerate, you yourself need cheap tooling..(etc etc and so on - turtles all the way down) |
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