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Originally Posted by randolph
During the great depression (1930s), thousands of people were out of work and additional thousands of poor farmers lost their farms in the midwest dust storms. It was a terrible time for a lot of people. Social services were practically nonexistent. Yet, there was little violence, people suffered starved and died without help. They didn't burn down their neighborhoods, they looked for work.
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Americans are quite deliberately NOT taught the true and full history of the Depression period. There was brutal repression by the forces of the government to put down labor unions, unemployed unions, political action on the left, and so on. The various aspects of the "New Deal" -- Social Security, unemployment insurance, and so on -- were enacted precisely because the ruling wealthy, or at least the segment that won the argument, recognized that giving up a bit of profit was preferable to the alternative, which was the very real possibility of social revolution in the United States and an end to
all their profit.