Plenty of good folks may put a gun to their head if they are gonna lose their home or their business. I’m really not sanguine about this.
My father had to leave to work in Romania for a decade because of 2008. What could we all end up having to do?
Aren’t we all doing that in here ourselves?
Imagine being a small restaurant or family business with a margin of 8-10%. You’ve been told to close and there’s a good chance you won’t reopen.
There’s gonna be devastation from this that may never fix.
I don’t want people to get it wrong and think it won’t get super bad or can’t. It will certainly be bad in many ways and already is. But the last crisis we had (and I’m not saying this won’t dwarf it substantially) for a LOT of the people in the country not a whole lot significantly changed. College basketball and football games were still sold out. Good old boys from my area took their RV’s out fishing and went mudding in their second vehicle. This wasn’t rich fat cats doing these things.
Pain was felt by different people to different levels, just like it is with any crisis. A lot of people went through that with almost zero change to their life experiences. I know I did on a personal level.
This is already effecting more people at least on the whole with lack of movement and future iffy unemployment. This is much different than the depression and recession in the sense that we’re not doing stuff now largely out of a fear for safety. I have no idea where this could go. But I think any rush to be like “gonna be bad or worse than the Great Depression” is pretty intense hyperbole at this point.
The stock market dropping big time in a few days hasn’t kept the majority of Americans in modern times from eating.
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I’m not sure I understand. I’m saying people have no idea why quality-of-life will be so much better now than a hundred years ago, even with stock prices down.
We have to choose between businesses that are too big to fail and those that are too small to make significant political contributions.
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I’m not saying you’ll be wrong here. My sole point is that economic considerations are considerations, and they aren’t negligible.
That was my sole point here, I’m not trying to prophesize doom like some beer soaked Cassandra over here 
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The US Congress have already made that choice.
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I got ya man. I actually think it’s very possible that some numbers from this are worse than the Depression. However part of what made that so bad were the length of time. I believe we will recover much faster just like we did in 08. I guess I say that largely from a US perspective.
Go work in Alabama?
Is suicide still an option?
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It could be V shaped. I rather hope it is. Whatever will be will be, I suppose.
Could be worse. You could be an airline thinking that if you’d spent more money on stock buybacks that you would be getting even more money. Imagine making millions to enrich yourself and not saving much and then realizIng if you hadn’t saved anything you would have even more millions coming in.
My god we’re trying to have a hypothetical discussion among anonymous people and you go straight to sex. Disgusting lot of you up there.
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There’ll be a reckoning for this, I hope. 2008 and the bandits got away with it. If they get away with it again, we should all just admit we are serfs.
A long enough time inside will turn even the stodgiest Brit into a degenerate. We’re basically New Yorkers by now.
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I think it’s fun that you think the movie won’t end the same way. Fast forward to 1:35 if you want to see how this ends again.
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On a positive note the wife and I are having more sex. It’s a good way to kill a few minutes (self burn!). I’d like to think it’s more than a few.
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Making the best of it!
My wedding may be cancelled, which sucks, but I’m not going to get precious about it, there are bigger things to worry about.
Trump: That’s why I say if you’re going to start a business start a big business. Don’t think small. When I see someone who thinks small I see a loser. I didn’t build houses, I built skyscrapers. I built golf courses. You ever been on a golf course? It’s beautiful. They’re very green. They call it a green you know. I have my own golf course. When I see someone without their own golf course I see a loser. You gotta think big.
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