If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?

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If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?

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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I hope you don’t have to find out how naive that view is.

So you burn down the farm house. What about the fields? The equipment? The person who was kicked off the land already by then is still destitute. Now you’ve burned their old home down.

Now what? MAD only works when the damage can be equally devastating, and the community will already be devastated by then.

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Again, MAD only works when the damage is equally devastating on both sides.

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