Misconceptions About the Great Depression

[@tmbgfan1234]

"People have been shoving peanut butter into surprising places for years before the great depression." I'm not going to touch that one.

[@plucas1]

Unlike people during the Great depression.

[@route2070]

Poke-poke-poke

[@JoaoPessoa86]

Because they already did

[@KM683250]

I was eating a scrambled egg and peanut butter sandwich while watching this. I've been told that's weird.

[@SuperSecretSquirell]

@@KM683250 they're correct lol

[@bigguy1960]

How about "Myths about professions depicted on TV shows" - Doctors, lawyers, detectives, firefighters, police, architects (Mike Brady), etc.

[@JDoors]

Shoutout to Clare and her "Great Depression Cooking" channel! ❤❤❤

[@johnstevenson9956]

Those who claim "Smoot-Hawley" had nothing to do with the Depression, would like to see a version of it reenacted, which might be a good idea for business, but not so great for the rest of us.

[@sanders22158]

I feel like on some level, saying the stock market crash caused the great depression is like saying the assassination of archduke Ferdinand caused ww1. It may have been an immediate spark, but a lot of factors both before and after also played a huge part

[@dsxa918]

I appreciate your saying; I can see what you mean, in other events I've seen portrayed sequentially. For example, not everyone discusses who was really being shown up, in early August, 1945. Do you have any references or suggested reading I could learn by?

[@njmaxrocks]

Trying to tie Babe Ruth's salary in any capacity to the depression is a misconception. He was approaching the end of his playing career and his stats started to gradually decline and therefore his salary began to decline. Facts

[@EmpressMermaid]

Saying the stock market crash caused the Depression is like saying your fever caused your flu.

[@tessat338]

I remember my grandmother saying, "What Depression? My father had a job. We always had food on the table." She knew that there were economic problems in the country but it didn't affect her comfort personally. She would have been about 15 when the stock market crashed and got married in 1935 at age 21. She had her first baby early in the following year. My grandfather, her husband, was a postal worker and always had a job as well. I think that his family was hit harder by the depression because his father was a stonemason.

[@hereverydayadventure]

My family lore would seem to agree with your first point. My paternal great-grandfather was a country doctor and they made ends meet during the depression by doing business on barter. He’d make a house call and leave with a basket of eggs, a bolt of fabric, or a bunch of apples - whatever folks had to spare. And that was how they met their family’s needs.

[@22lostservice]

Makes me feel we are in a depression now but because we have this misunderstanding of what the great depression was like for the wealthy and others we don't see.

[@Dragantraces]

Burglary is very different from robbery, including bank robbery, which was Dillinger's crime of choice.

[@m1nds0up13]

You can badmouth peanutbutter and onions all you want. You won't stop me from eating my peanutbutter and onion sandwiches.

[@jliller]

The Great Depression began in Florida in 1926, three years before the Wall Street crash. Florida had been going through an absurdly inflated real estate market driven by rampant speculation and undermined by fraud. A major hurricane hit Miami, devastating the heart of the Great Florida Land Boom and causing the already teetering real estate market to crater.

[@danieledugre1837]

My mum was one of 16 children. They had a large garden, relatives with farms and used barter. They did ok.

[@adamwatson2914]

All I know is that nobody had any money and so everyone got really really depressed

[@OneOfThoseTypes]

Clara Cannucciari was such a sweet lady - RIP.

[@jacobmartin9446]

"Welcome to my Salon"

[@joeTheN]

Psychiatrists made a killing treating that Great Depression.

[@rawbacon]

Great Grandparents in Michigan and Grandparents who got married and started their own farm during The Great Depression did just fine. Sometimes historians make it seem like no one prospered and were all living on city sidewalks begging for food.

[@btetschner]

Thank you for the video.

[@soundlyawake]

ok what microphone is this bc the bass is giving

[@Carolcritchlow-k5k]

This is how simple I am the only thing I took from this video was I didn't know escapism is a real word

[@sageburner127]

Hang on now- tomatos, peppers, onions, and peanuts? That's hitting west African culinary territory.

[@frankunderbush]

It was called "The Big Sad" by the working class of the time.

[@dsxa918]

I don't know if their vernacular had evolved so brightly.

[@wolfcat87]

Milk corno sounds like grits that need water

[@bonniegaither3994]

Could you imagine going to the movies weekly nowadays!?!? 😳

[@bakomusha]

"Not everyone was poor' sounds like the Neo-liberal by line that is on par with 'no one starved'. The wealth disparity ballooned immensely, while some in the upper middle class felt the crunch at first cause the crash, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Whats worse is that because of mass media control we've had two much worse periods of economic downturn since then, we just don't openly talk about how bad it is.

[@dennis8196]

The comments about James Cagney are missing a lot of facts and context. He went on strike and it was very high demand that forced the studio to change his contract. He was silently paying charities more than half his earnings.

[@raeperonneau4941]

Milkcorno is basically Polenta. 😂

[@firstcynic92]

All this video shows is that disproving your own strawman arguments is very easy.

[@backpacker3421]

The widespread poverty was caused by numerous factors, but (and this will sound all too familiar), it was more a problem of a huge spike in wealth inequality - those at the top accumulating and hoarding MASSIVE amounts of wealth at the expense of everyone. Eventually it REQUIRED the government to step in and tax the wealthy in order to put the nation back to work in order to make the economy function again. WWII helped pull the trigger on the government choosing to act, but it was the infrastructure projects that really did the trick. And that tax and build process propelled the US out of the GD, and sparked one of the longest prolonged periods of economic growth any country has seen in the history of the world - and is arguably the very thing that made the US a dominant superpower and for several decades the sole dominant economic superpower. Remember that every time somebody tries to tell you that trickle down works. The GD proved otherwise. Even with the economy collapsing into ruin, the wealthy were (and still are) not willing to invest their money without a strong return on investment - meaning for every dollar that trickles down, there's always two that trickle back up one way or the other.

[@koppadasao]

Orphan Annie caused the Great Depression

[@deutschlander85]

Not sure the Three Musketeers bar makes for a compelling counter example to the claim that food from the Great Depression was disgusting.

[@dlsspy]

I heard it wasn’t that great.

[@williamwenrich3288]

It wasn’t what Hoover didn’t do, it’s what he did.

[@frankmenchaca9993]

Nobody had any fun during the depression? Rich people had fun. Whether you were old money or a boot ledger or a movie star the story is still the same, money talks.