This was before the federal government formed an (unconstitutional!) standing army.
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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?
Honestly, this is why I fled suburbia for someplace more integrated and communal.
I looked around and realized that I barely knew who lived there, and nobody had my back. Likewise, if someone was in trouble, I would never hear about it. I'm not unfriendly by any means, it's just the whole tract-housing setup with no communal space is practically engineered to divide people up. Heap work hours and commute time on top of that, and all you know is someone keeps a car in so many driveways overnight; you never see any people. Everyone there really kept to themselves, as the environment made that easy to do.
I'm happy to say that I'm in a place now that would likely band together if it came down to it.
They would try but they would be prevented by lethal force.
Most likely no. People nowadays have no empathy. Don't care about others. No unity.
I'm guessing the noose wasn't only for the benefit of outsiders. Most communities probably had one or two selfish people.
Correct as all the negative comments may be, I really think we can’t know what shape it would take. Things change quickly when people get hungry. Only class consciousness can save us.
They are doing this in some areas. Little Tokyo in Los Angeles had a whole bunch of people buy out buildings so rent wouldn't go up and they could subsidiZe some of the older standing businesses. Humans are still mostly good.
No. The world and people are way too divided. We have litteral groups of people that life in a different reality, the conspiricy theory nut jobs.
Are you fucking kidding? People were scalping toilet paper during a plague, ffs
During the penny auction times farmers were still poor white folks. Now it is only rich white republicans owning all the farms. They all salivate at the idea of owning all the land around them.
Community isn't like what it was back then. I'm guessing hell no.