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If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions? (lemmy.ca)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/54239937

During the Great Depression, when banks foreclosed on farms, neighbors often showed up at the auctions together.

They’d bid only a few cents, and return the land to the family that lost it. Sometimes a noose hung nearby as a warning to outsiders not to profit from someone else’s ruin.

It was rough, but it worked, communities protected each other when the system wouldn’t.

If a collapse like that happened today, do you think people would still stand together or has that kind of solidarity disappeared? Could it happen again?

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[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

People also sold unwanted children, we going back there too? I know a lot of Trump voters are salivating at the thought.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Reduced monthly costs AND a lump sum of money? I might have a few I'm willing to give up.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do they have to be your own?

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I mean, is this really the business to be asking questions?

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For sure! I'm pro-abortion so I'm sure as heck pro-auction. The birth having already happened is just a minor detail.

Besides, if a kid's parents don't want them, I'm sure that man in the nice blackout van will give them a much better childhood.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

Abortion is totally moral up to about 8 years of fetal development!