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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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[–] Nythos@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The US Great Depression directly lead to hyperinflation in Weimar Germany which lead to the rise of National Socialism.

Edit: I was wrong, the hyperinflation was 9 years prior and it was a 30% unemployment rate from the crash which was a leading factor to National Socialism, not hyperinflation.

[–] thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Nope, it didn't, the hiper inflation happened almost 9 years before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic

Edit: I appreciate your edit, but now mine looks out of touch :)

[–] Nythos@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Seems I mixed up the unemployment from the depression with the hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic.

I’ve edited my comment to say this

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Part of that was linked to a great drought on US farms caused by overfarming leading to the dust bowl. That was a major part of the US GDP then. And 100 years later people still don't believe humans can alter the environment.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The drought began 5 years after the market shit itself to death. The farms began struggling after the war.

[–] DNS@discuss.online 0 points 1 day ago

The US at the time deported Latino citizens due to the increases racism/bigotry. Most of them were farmhands who knew how to work the land, better than the white farmers. The US realized their mistake in the middle of the depression and attempted to woo the same people back under the Vaquero program. The promise of citizenship was never fulfilled by the US.