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Aside from losses of friends and family, rich people lost servants and serfs to the Black Death. The result was a severe shortage of labor needed to raise food and provide for infrastructure. In England, members of the nobility began to raid each others manors for serfs, offering a better deal to those who would move.

Some jobs that rich people would have liked to see done were left undone because there was no one to do them. I would guess that maintaining hunting parks and flower gardens might have been examples, but I cannot say I have ever seen this in print.

One thing I have seen that people seem to forget is that immediately after the Black Death the people of all classes in Europe felt a powerful psychological drive to have children, with the result that there was a great need for attention given to the young. I have read (and unfortunately cannot remember where) that in some towns in England, five years after the plague ended, the median age was under five years old.

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