Normal people used to have homesteads and family businesses. Eventually, it became normal to be "employed," a condition formerly reserved to slaves, sailors, East India Company employees and other similar wretches.
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While modern industrialisation has made it possible to sustain much larger populations than in the past, and vastly expanded the numbers of people we would consider to have comfortable lives, it's unclear whether the impoverished and immiserated are any fewer or better off.
