cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/54239937

During the Great Depression, when banks foreclosed on farms, neighbors often showed up at the auctions together.

They’d bid only a few cents, and return the land to the family that lost it. Sometimes a noose hung nearby as a warning to outsiders not to profit from someone else’s ruin.

It was rough, but it worked, communities protected each other when the system wouldn’t.

If a collapse like that happened today, do you think people would still stand together or has that kind of solidarity disappeared? Could it happen again?

  • 🇾 🇪 🇿 🇿 🇪 🇾@lemmy.caOP
    11·
    15 hours ago

    Because when everyone’s broke, the whole social network changes. People stop pretending the system works for them and start relying on each other instead.

    • Bo7a@piefed.caEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      The problem with this is that a lot of these people have been shitting on their neighbors and their entire neighborhoods for decades because they think they are the special snowflake who can survive anything by themselves and don’t need any community.

      When those fucks are also broke and they come asking for help a lot of us are going to tell them to get fucked.

      Those of us who’ve been building intentional communities and support systems will be a little better off, but we’re going to be wasting a lot of time trying to fight off raiders from the aforementioned group above. thankfully they’ll probably be coming single file because they won’t help each other either.