Almost everyone was extremely poor then too.
You can tell from the percentage of the labour force who worked on farms that most people couldn't have been wealthy, and the industrial revolution changed everything.
You can tell from the percentage of the labour force who worked on farms that most people couldn't have been wealthy, and the industrial revolution changed everything.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/agriculture-value-added-p...
Shocking that corn and cow producers in India are 90% less productive than in the US.
Being a peasant was awful too, mind.