Worked great during the (surviving) workers during the bubonic plague.
https://history.wustl.edu/news/how-black-death-made-life-bet...
"Thus the undisputed rise in nominal or money wages following the Black Death was literally ‘swamped’ by the post-Plague inflation, so that real wages fell." https://ideas.repec.org/p/tor/tecipa/munro-04-04.html