My long passed away grandfather used to tell me about the Great Dperession.
It sounded like they all made due and toughed it out and didn’t sit around and wait for the government to help them
“My long passed away grandfather used to tell me about the Great Depression.
It sounded like they all made due and toughed it out and didn’t sit around and wait for the government to help them.”
I questioned my parents who lived through the ‘30’s. The things they and their parents did can’t be done today. Everything my grandfather did to put food on the table has been rendered unworkable. He’d sell his labor by the job; just negotiate with somebody and get cash. He built buildings, moved pianos to second floors with block and tackle, etc. Each thing he did would require government partnership, HR forms, taxes, licenses, fees, zoning changes…Oh, and INSURANCE!
Minimum wages, mandatory reporting, mandated benefits and a host of laws prevent us from even having the child next door mow our lawn. (He can sue is he’s injured.) I don’t know how we get away from it all this paternal government “help.”