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We'll never know what society would be like without that long period of depression. Of course no time is all bad or all good. This depression has given us a lot
by jswinghammer 16y ago
We'll never know what society would be like without that long period of depression. Of course no time is all bad or all good. This depression has given us a lot of great new technologies. A lot of families are on the street after their homes were foreclosed too.
If you just look at Apple Keynotes since the depression started you'd look at this time period as a pretty great time for technology and innovation. If you look at families living in hotels because they have nowhere else to go you'd get a much different picture of what this time period was like.
- gsaines 16y agoThis is essentially what I was driving at here, jswinghammer, that flattening history is a disservice to the people who lived it. The people on the street and the people at the Apple keynote were all living during this enormous recession, and neither group would tell the whole story. Ultimately, I intended this to call attention to how important daily, personal events shape us, but larger national-level events often act as labels that don't get at the day-to-day meaning.