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Originally Posted by Adder
Your view is that the Black Death was stimulative? I believe that's at odds with historical economic understanding.
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Actually, it was pretty good for the survivors. Things were down for a while, but there is an argument that the economic surplus caused by the rapid population drop was one of the causes of the European Renaissance. There are a lot of historians who would argue (and have argued) that it was, in the long term, stimulative.
Of course, the drop in population was worldwide, so maybe it's not really the best explanation.
Do you actually read history?
