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Earth-shine

(4,044 posts)
10. "Depressing" is the wrong word. Try "depression." Historically, it's what comes after the 20s. nt
Wed Dec 8, 2021, 03:49 PM
Dec 2021

Red Mountain

(2,380 posts)
5. Shame living it is the best way for (most, if not almost all) people to learn from it
Tue Dec 7, 2021, 09:36 PM
Dec 2021

and those who lived it are almost all gone.

Midnight Writer

(25,751 posts)
8. Get set for 1929. Honestly, I don't think this wealth imbalance is sustainable.
Wed Dec 8, 2021, 02:45 PM
Dec 2021

Too bad the wealthy don't voluntarily moderate their insatiable demands for more and more.

I don't begrudge talented, hard working folks getting rich.

I do begrudge them using their wealth to screw over the rest of us.

FSogol

(47,665 posts)
11. When everything old is new again!
Wed Dec 8, 2021, 03:57 PM
Dec 2021

Don't throw the pa-ast away
You might need it some rainy day
Dreams can come true again
When everything old is new again

70sEraVet

(5,616 posts)
12. The influenza epidemic had ushered in the '20s
Wed Dec 8, 2021, 04:59 PM
Dec 2021

I've heard that the only reason it died out is because there were no more people left to infect - they had either died or recovered. No vaccine, no antibiotics. Who would have imagined that in an epidemic a century later, people would refuse the vaccines that could save them, and mock the scientists.

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