• @[email protected]
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    181 year ago

    A lot of those claims are based on tax return numbers, which radically overestimate the average salary back then because only the richest people actually filed taxes during that time.

    Don’t get me wrong, we’re not in a good place, but it’s not peak great depression bad.

      • @Flashoflight
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        31 year ago

        There are bread lines where I live. The homeless/houseless population is absurd.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        I dunno. Seeing quasi hoovervilles popping up with communities of homeless people living in tents and I don’t even live in California. We are like 80% of the way to great depression but there is just more large scale manufacturing of food and entertainment these days