If America again suffered a devastating financial collapse and Depression, would we cope as well as 1930s?

Question

Please tell me if you think we are capable of weathering a protracted time of great testing and hardship today.

I fear we aren't, am I right?
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Answer 1

I have to agree with you. People are much less connected each other, ironically, now that we are technologically capable of being perpetually in touch. I feel that we don't have the gumption we did back then either...its scary.

Answer 2

More people in the early 1930's lived in the country and thus had a source of food in domestic animals they raised and gardens and that is what allowed many to survive. I think if Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) were to return to life and be elected or if a person who thought like he did were elected we would survive economically.

I was a rural child in the 1930's and remember much of it but we always had food and shelter. FDR was looked on by the unfortunate as a sort of god and the Republicans as some sort of scheming villain who had gotten us into the mess and were wailing to anyone who would listen, "Do something, for God's sake do something!" and jumping out of skyscraper windows because they had lost all in the stock-market. When FDR did something that worked Republicans damned him for it. It would probably be the same again, those who had only skills for money wrangling and love of wealth would be devastated while those who lived close to the land and their families would survive relatively unscathed.

Good luck when the stock market plunges, good mental health, peace and Love!

Answer 3

well my parents went through the great depression (I'm sorta old, but was not alive back then). I remember growing up seeing my dad helping neighbors. I think people really came to each others aid. I also lived with my grandma for awhile, and I'm told sometimes people would come to the back door hungry and she would give them food.

Today people just don't seem to care about their neighbors.

Answer 4

We?

I don't think anyone at any point in time copes very well with economic depression. They survive it if they're lucky.

Capable? yes.