• @HipsterTenZero
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    152 months ago

    Hi, nonprogrammer poking my head in from all. What happened in 2009?

        • shnizmuffin
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          652 months ago

          Oh don’t worry you’ll get to experience one firsthand in [ checks watch ] about 20 minutes.

            • @HipsterTenZero
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              52 months ago

              I’m right there with you. I feel like everyone I know’s a bunch of hermit crabs lining up to upgrade from soda cans and plastic bottles into real shells

      • @Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
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        12 months ago

        More like a global depression that governments won’t admit was a depression because the economy is completely shareholder centric with very little consideration for workers. New grads did the occupy Wallstreet protests because they spent multiple years unable to find a job. It was a nightmare that destroyed the lives of countless working class people

    • @mesamunefire@lemmy.world
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      112 months ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis

      My local area was hit bad about a year later than everyone else. But once it hit, houses were close to 1/2 the price of what they were going a year earlier + unemployment was up to about 20%. It was VERY bad and I remember trying to get a job in the middle of it. I got lucky and got something around an hour away while quite a it of my social group moved away.