<emmeka> hattusili_III it was more like aristocrats started enclosing land so they could produce at greater labour efficiency because after the plague there was a labour shortage and then as society slowly rebuilt the population boomed because of this increased efficiency which created waaaaay too many farm labourers which put a downwards pressure on living conditions and resulted in mass agrarian unemployment
<emmeka> so most of these people ended up drifting either to the new world or to the cities
<emmeka> and now suddenly in the cities you have these massive hoards of unemployed landless workers who need sustinence.
<hattusili_III> because claiming that such early labor transactions were voluntary is a pretty funny use of voluntary even for bourgeois types
<emmeka> that condition gave rise to industry, since industry now had a workforce it could exploit
<emmeka> tl;dr the bubonic plague caused the industrial revolution ;)