Hard times
Des centaines d'entretiens font revivre les souvenirs de ceux qui ont traversé la grande dépression de 1929 aux États-Unis, du krach aux luttes syndicales, de la difficulté de la vie paysanne aux conséquences du New Deal.
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- The United States has always had deep poverty relative to what it probably should be.
US culture is weird. We value long, hard work as well as fortunes made overnight in dubious, speculative fields. Combined, this leads to a significant percentage of the population working hard, expecting their reward to come, not bothered by current circumstances. Obviously there are religious overtones here, like something out of the Middle Ages that kept the serfs in line.
If you look at accounts of the Depression, such as Stud Terkel’s excellent “Hard Times” oral history, people remark about how passive America seemed, how in the face of grinding poverty, the rebellions and revolutions the intellectuals all forecasted never came to past.
- Hard Times by Studs Terkel.
While it covers a lot of ground, it does cover what worked and what didn't during the Great Depression.
- All of this reminds me of the modern version of the Great Depression. Economists have gotten smarter this time around and have covered up the unemployment rate and CPI, but it’s mostly the same.
Studs Terkel, probably the most famous interviewer / oral historian who’s ever lived, wrote a book containing hundreds of oral histories about the Depression. It sounds just like today:
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression https://www.amazon.com/dp/1565846567/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Yh8K...
