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?
People also sold unwanted children, we going back there too? I know a lot of Trump voters are salivating at the thought.
Reduced monthly costs AND a lump sum of money? I might have a few I’m willing to give up.
Do they have to be your own?
I mean, is this really the business to be asking questions?
For sure! I’m pro-abortion so I’m sure as heck pro-auction. The birth having already happened is just a minor detail.
Besides, if a kid’s parents don’t want them, I’m sure that man in the nice blackout van will give them a much better childhood.