America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report
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America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report
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#2So, we're about to have Great Depression 2 and WW3? Fun.
Re: America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report
#3So, we're about to have Great Depression 2 and WW3? Fun.
Sometimes I wish Strauss–Howe theory hadn't been hijacked. It seems noteworthy how similar (cyclical?) things are even if it's a coincidence..
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#5Still reading the article but it reminds me that I need to watch Metropolis now, I think it came out in 1928 or so.
Re: America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report
#6So, we're about to have Great Depression 2 and WW3? Fun.
We're kind of already having the WW3 part.
Re: America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report
#7You're a 26 year old in 1926. You're part of what history would later call the Greatest Generation. You will suffer through both the Great Depression and World War II. Perhaps due to those experiences, you will be the only generation that votes more left as you age.
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#8So, we're about to have Great Depression 2 and WW3? Fun.
It has felt inevitable to me for a few years now. The market != the economy but a major crash can still trigger a credit crunch that will materially affect regular people. Look at the insane valuations on some of these companies. They can't continue forever.
As for WW3, well, there's a diaper-wearing senile old man, with an inferiority complex to boot, in charge of a nuclear arsenal and major conventional forces.
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#9yeah but America 1926 didn't have a billion dollars a day being extracted from the economy by a totally useless war (that is going to start again in 60 days)
or a President extracting billions from his own government for a plane, golf, inexplicable illegal destruction and renovations to national sites
the government was also not purposely imploding academia, science and medicine
there are also now over a THOUSAND billionaires "silo-ing" their wealth, barely paying any taxes and trying to eliminate the cost of employing anybody
we cannot recover this decade, maybe not even next century, and that assumes this horror show doesn't have a "part 2"
Re: America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report
#10You're a 26 year old in 1926. You're part of what history would later call the Greatest Generation. You will suffer through both the Great Depression and World War II. Perhaps due to those experiences, you will be the only generation that votes more left as you age.
If you were born in 1900 you probably are at the tail end of the Lost Generation — the Greatest Generation is considered to be those born between 1901 and 1927.