Depression 2009: What would it look like?

A lot of people standing in line in the cold weather waiting for free coffee at a Starbucks store.

Honestly, would not be that bad. (I mean, it would suck though)

May very well be a humbling experience.

robots. lots and lots of robots.

it's really late and i'm just posting bull. I'll stop =0(

Better still what will America look like in 10 years. Those that still can find employment will be making there way on a push bike.

I hear most of Europe officially went into a recession just recently.
There would only be two classes; rich and poor. I would say rebellion by the poor in which case the rich would create robots to keep all of us in line. Those robots would then turn against their creator and the rich in general, backwards I Robot style, and whoevers left would then have to start a society from scratch.

And likely in Europe it will be Mercedes Benz making the Robots.

like bladerunner! j/k.

come on, be more optimistic.

Like it is now, nice and toasty.

"....thinking that life's pleasures come from counting one's blessings and appreciating and holding onto what one already has."

Things are worse thatn I thought, I entered the "dwelling" mode several years ago.

The article describes a rather demur depression where the poor folk sit around all day watching their families slowly starve.

Wake up! we live in NRA-land where every yahoo redneck - the ones who will lose the most in any economic downturn - owns a gun.

I would expect armed bands of killing marauding thugs trying to survive - a sort of Road Warrior scenario, only grander in scale.

Adult children moving back home, parents moving in with their children, a huge rise in robberies and murder,diseases out of control due to lack of health insurance, families growing their own food, etc. Doom and gloom all over.

'And while very few would starve, a depression would change how we eat. Food costs remain far below what they were for a family in the 1920s and 1930s, but they have been rising in recent years, and many people already on the edge of poverty would be unable to feed themselves on their own in a harsh economic climate - soup kitchens are already seeing an uptick in attendance. At the high end of the market, specialty and organic foods - which drove the success of chains like Whole Foods - would seem pointlessly expensive; the booming organic food movement could suffer as people start to see specially grown produce as more of a luxury than a moral choice. New England's surviving farmers would be particularly hard-hit, as demand for their seasonal, relatively high-cost products dried up."

wooow people will actually get in shape. maybe not such bad idea.

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It looks like now.

My city has always had a high un-employment rate. It's like the rest of the state of florida left us behind but whatever. I know how to sruvive with barely anything i've been doing it for a while now.

I'm not in debt either. This is going to be a lot harder for a lot of other people who are used to a certain way of life. Things will have to change. This will be a lesson to our materialistic soceity.

There are already lines in the ER.

Maybe like the Watts riots. Or maybe, we will move back into real neighborhoods again, and start taking care of each other like back in the good old days...

Would a depression still leave jobs in TV?

People who have been poor, as a rule, don't rebell. Those who have experienced abundance and have lost it. those are the people who will rebel and those who are in realistic fear of losing it all as well. That is a good rule of thumb and is usually true no matter the culture. It is also known to those in power.It is not people's plight that moves politicians, it is the likelihood of their action followed by political action.

A rise in crime.
Retail will take the biggest hit. We can look forward to empty strip malls, and longer lines at the discount grocery store.
We also will not see any great developments in consumer technology or in the auto industry.
Not exactly Thunderdome, but not a utopia.

First Rule of Project Mayhem:

Don't ask questions...

Once consumers cannot consume, The consumers will be consumed.

300 Million people brought to zero..

Bring on the Chaos!

Ride on!

its all a facade just let it rock and get your guns to town lol