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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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[–] PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Absolutely not. Americans are now scumbags to each other. Especially after how they monetized homes and turned them into reality tv shows. About how the take an affordable home and make it unaffordable. Scumbag Americans will fuck each other over.

[–] tym@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Scumbag murican checking in: The difference between a 65 year old and a 5 year old is nearly non-existent nowadays. Xenophobia is a hell of a drug.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

5 year olds haven't been fully taught racism yet.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

And a 15, 25, 35, 45, 55 year old....

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

In my experience young children are the most empathetic and caring people. Its surprising (also why lord of the flies is a stupid story).

Until they get parented by magats and sent to school.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I feel like this too