@redpillschool The irony is that the peasants' revolt actually changed nothing. The peasants got control of London but then didn't know what to do next, instead of overthrowing the nobles and ruling, they just had a piss up and organised a parlay with the king. At the parlay the nobles who knew that violence sorts what parlays won't killed the leader of the revolt and pretty soon they are all dead or had fled.

The peasants did not understand that to overthrow an existing set of rulers, you need to take control and use any force necessary to replace the establishment members who are in control. Establishments won't normally just agree to change that is going to destroy them. That's like turkeys voting for Christmas. (The white male agreeing to bow out of control has been a unique exception to this. Let us hope it is temporary).

What actually changed a man's ability to work for another employer was the economics of the black death -a proper pandemic not a fake one. There were not enough peasants and so the bottom dropped out of the economy -which was based on food production and rent from peasants. Anyone who did have money could lure the few valuable workers away and those who had not got enough couldn't really afford to enforce their rights to have their workers back. A mercantile class who hired labour instead of owned the rights to laborers rose up.

I don't think any comparisons work in this case. The black death was a real pandemic that gradually freed an ignorant people enslaved for centuries. Covid was a nasty new cold that showed an informed people that the experts were not helping society or actually that expert either.