From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Wed Apr 09 2003 - 12:21:42 MDT
In a message dated 4/9/2003 1:05:53 PM Central Standard Time,
phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu writes: Britain got richer in the enclosure
movement, with tenants being kicked off the land for sheep farming; the
tenants would probably have words about it not getting internally worse.
Damien,
Yes, in the short run you are reasonably correct. But in the long run
Britain got wealthier including those that were initially displaced. Britain
got wealthier because the wool was worth more than the other farm products
the tenants had been producing. The tenants moved into the cities and found
other work. After an adjustment period it is predictable that the tenants
did also.
I was born and raised on a farm. The population of that rural area
emptied out supplying workers for the city. We like the earlier group had to
go through an adjustment period. But we prospered and today wouldn't go back
to the old existance -- we have it much better.
That is part of the problem the Soviet got into. When you try to hold
every thing constant you forego modernization and growth.
Ron h
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