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What on earth do you mean "Didn't they learn anything from the Great Depression?" I'm in my late 50's and I'm a Boomer. My Grandparents and Parents were in the Depression but by the time I came along it wasn't much discussed because there had been an improvement in living standards. What I know about it came from tv and movies.
Most of these young people haven't a clue about the Depression or what it was like. We get tons of stuff on tv about the wars, wars, wars, but nothing on the lives of people before and during the Depression or what it was like pre-unions. It's like talking about how cro-magnon man lived to people not much younger than me. When all you know is plenty then poverty isn't thought of.
