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I... don't know how to feel about this (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

While we're trolling future historians, let's rewrite the history books to say that the Great Depression was just a period where everyone was really sad for some reason. It was a mental health epidemic, not an economic crisis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

nah not even depression, just sad enough that we stopped working for a few years, and the eventually decided we should probably start working again lmao.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also the Nazis came to power. And that was just like...a huge bummer for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

well only for part of the world that knew what was happening, the rest just kinda, existed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I mean, The Great Depression probably did make a bunch of people sad.