Reply #46: Barely. That was a different world. People felt ASHAMED of being unemployed back then.

[McCamy Taylor]

If you read Studs Terkel's "Hard Times" there are two messages. During the Depression, people felt guilty or ashamed at their own misfortune. And the same people, looking at modern America, believe that if another Great Depression were to happen, the United States would not quietly accept it as it did in the 1930s. People are not accepting of misfortune as they were back then. If we get to another Great Depression, the people in the book believed that there would be a workers' revolution.