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What does a crash mean though? I remember people talking for years about the 2008 crash, but to be honest I never noticed it, nor did most people I know. We jus
by sgt 9mo ago
What does a crash mean though? I remember people talking for years about the 2008 crash, but to be honest I never noticed it, nor did most people I know. We just kinda read about in the newspaper.
- mtsolitary 9mo agoHow old are you?
- sgt 9mo agoDude I'm born in the 80s! I am well aware there was a crash but.. I cannot recall a single thing that affected me or anyone else I am close to. Note that I'm not in the US though.
- cahgnifop 9mo agoYou understand humanity is a community, right? Look outside yourself. It is very easy to find examples of many people who suffered as a result of the 2008 crash.
- IAmBroom 9mo agoAgreed. While I was jobless for 18 months, I met someone in the storage locker, late at night, who was SO EAGER to chat. Kept talking to me for an hour while I boxed and stored my junk that wouldn't fit in my tiny, cheap rental housing. I realized that the storage unit was heated, with unmetered power (if you rented a power-supplied unit) and a working restroom. He was so chatty because (I realized) he was living there. And desperate for social contact. I let him talk to me, because I'm not a solipsistic asshole who thinks the Great Recession of 2008 didn't affect people.
- IAmBroom 9mo agoI note you are in South Africa. "South Africa entered its first recession in 17 years in late 2008.... with nearly one million jobs lost by 2009, pushing the unemployment rate to roughly 24%." That's 24% of your own country that you "are not close to", and therefore don't care about. Wow.