If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?
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No. The auctions wouldnโt happen in person but online. Some reit or foreign money or both will bid more than the locals could afford.
Well if there was one I donโt think everyone would submit to the banks or foreign money.
It has already happen. Look what happen in 08. The banks did the foreclosures and then just sat on the properties or sold them in mass to someone else. There wasnโt any auctions on the courthouse steps for the local populace to bid only a dollar.
That wasnโt a great depression.
Because a depression is going to make banks sympathetic to the poors? Donโt bet on it.
A real depression wouldnโt spare anyone, everyone gets hit not just the poor.
That's what's going to make this one interesting. The cascade event for the great depression was a stock market crash which resulted in many of those wealthy people autodefenestrating, an event that the stock market was modified to prevent from happening in the same way in the future. It's going to work the same as the last time for the poors, but it's still to be determined if it's going to hit the non-poors the same way.