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

submitted 2 months ago by Yezzey@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[-] MotoAsh@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you think fighting rich corporations with guns by the time they're scooping up farms is how it should be fought, you've already lost.

[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Just because you've lost doesn't mean you should give up, that's how they keep you down, you need to have a positive outlook as well while acknowledge that there issues and keep arguing for things to get better.

[-] MotoAsh@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, but taking bad tacts that won't actually change the trajectory of things is only going to disillusion people further.

this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2025

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