No. No. No.

Renaissance history was written by the rich. For the majority, it was just still feudalism and slavery.

For 85% of the Europeans, renaissance meant absolutely no improvement for their material conditions.

They were still tied to the land and forever in debt.

A Gini index of 0 = perfect income equality and 1= extreme inequality.

Look at the data on Italy during the Renaissance, it was pretty unequal. What is worse is that in some areas poverty increased.

Income inequality got worse as time went on!

And the rich got richer!

Don't forget how the rich constantly had turf wars.. (Like actual battles)...so there was this.. kinda... mafia-style violence... all the time!

Shakespeare's most famous tragedy Romeo and Juliet was set based on the constant political violence between the super-wealthy.

They would fight over land, ships, banking rights, monopolies, popes... everything!

Also, if you want to get data sources for my threads and posts.. Please join the telegram channel http://t.me/historic_ly 

Can we not make this a genre? https://twitter.com/Hitchcockian/status/1246504626159005696?s=20

Holy god! This article is so bad! https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-29/economic-life-after-covid-19-lessons-from-the-black-death

WTF?

We've went over this before.... Economic contraction means there is a decline in the national output based on gross domestic product. https://historicly.substack.com/p/no-tyt-there-is-no-progressive-case

Why bring up something that happened 700 years ago?

Sigh.