how do you think the poor people survived after natural disasters in pre-capitalist economy times?

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Answer 1

They did it because they had to. They didn't have a culture of point the blame and extend the hand. They had to do for themselves or they didn't survive. If a natural disaster hit, they re-built with their barehands. My great grandmother survived a big earthquake in the early 1900's (she's not alive anymore), she lived through reconstruction after the civil war, she lived through the depression, and she made it through the hard times of several wars. How did she do it? She didn't get a hand out. Back then family was tight. They lived within a small radius. They chipped in and helped eachother build, raise families, and eat. They looked out for eachother. They would never take a handout from anyone. They were proud people. They worked the land for food, they did whatever they could (often several types of jobs) to earn a living. My grandmother started picking cotton when she was a child, she sewed blankets in her teens, raised chickens to sell the eggs, watched other's children, made knitted doilies to sell, and so on. Her husband built furniture by hand. He built the house they lived in himself. He worked at the mill, fixed cars on the side, and planted a field to sell at a vegetable stand.

The mentality was different. I lived through Hugo in 89. My family was without electricity or water for 14 days. We used the water in the pool for the toilet. We pulled out the grill and had a big bbq to eat up all the meat that was thawing out. We went to bed early because there was no electricity. No one whined about a slow response. No one screamed into the cameras. We had to pick through rubble to find friends. Pull trees off the roads ourselves to get through the town. Everyone got out with chainsaws and helped eachother. We shared the water in our pool with our neighbors. We shared the dried goods we had too. Everyone chipped in and helped. It's all a frame of mind. Do you pick yourself up and survive or do you whine and beg and complain.

So many people in Katrina were brave and courageous. So much aid from the citizens in this country poured into the area. Some of the surrounding areas of Mississippi were hit even harder than New Orleans. YOu didn't hear them whining. You don't hear about them on the news. It's all a frame of mind.

Answer 2

NOPE no longer even then will GOD leave those that belongs to him. organic failures are besides the fact that natures way of asserting she's had adequate human beings getting rid of from her and not putting something back. you're maximum suitable even though it does look as though this Gov,all areas of it,are slowly attempting to take GOD out of each thing and what fairly makes me offended is the undeniable fact that no christians are status up and asserting NO to any of it neither.

Answer 3

Life was harder then, and so people had the skills necessary to survive. Although, some died due to lack of modern technology and medicine. Communities were closer then, and people took care of their neighbors.

Answer 4

They often rioted, killing the wealthy and seizing their supplies. Then they stabbed the orators for asking loaded rhetorical questions actually reffering to current events rather than past ones.

Answer 5

Many didn't. But human beings are amazingly resilient. they can live with little food and water and survive many diseases.

Answer 6

donation and/or if they want to die, *no answer* they don't need anything.
But 2 suicide.
:x opps. i said too much
*oops*

Answer 7

By dying...