Incendax wrote:
grep wrote:
and the dark ages.
Experts quibble over the validity of this claim. While it is hard to deny that the black death was an important foundation element there is significant evidence that the dark ages would have come about regardless of the black death. Of course, the same could be said for economic reformation.

It is not by Black Death's hand that free enterprise was given form. It was brought here by those who wished to be paid tribute.
Tribute! It steals men's souls and makes them into slaves!
"Perhaps the same could be said of all economies"?
Those words are as empty as your mortgage-backed securities. Mankind ill needs a system such as yours.