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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        17 hours ago

        If you believe that every corporation is run by China then you’re seriously delirious.

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          17 hours ago

          Which is more likely, that someone made an offhand remark in an attempt to make a joke or that someone believes all corporations exist in China?

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            17 hours ago

            Jokes have that pesky requisite of, you know, being funny. Your statement can’t be asserted as such in any manner.