alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Take a minute to look through all the photos of hoovervilles. Tens of thousands of people in tents, often with the apartments they were evicted from and the factories closed or running at a fraction of capacity within a few hundred yards.
How would you explain to aliens why tens of thousands of people in every city were driven from their homes empty to live in squalor while being prevented from doing anything productive?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Ah yes, 2025: the year that the shantytown returned to the US