HIST 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Underconsumption, Roaring Twenties
11 Nov 2016
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Essay: experience of returning veterans of ww2: returning veterans in terms of their search on the job market- did they have a hard time finding work. Ww1-emotional and medical baggage after the war. Ww2: diplomacy, social realties of war, domestic home front. Explore the reactionary elements of religion of christianity. Ww2: political aspects on the home front, post ww2 society. Even if people are not given equal opportunities see that an alternative is worse for everyone. Idea that it is well paid middle class consumers who create jobs by buying things. Certain people (capitalists) all essentially believe in the same ideology. They are better than the regular people. They need fewer restrictions on morality, environment etc. They will create the jobs that will sustain the rest of us. Governments at the time do a lot less in the day. If you replace humans with robots you can produce a lot of things faster and cheaper.
