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?
In the vast majority of cases, certainly not. Anybody putting up any sort of threat will be… Policed. Anybody pretending they didn’t just lose everything - by design - will be policed. There’s a chance some people will be retroactively policed for making posts like this.