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During the depression, the problem wasn't that money was scarce, on the contrary, there was tons and tons of it! I was just useless. The value of the dollar was reduced to virtualy nothing. People that went to bed with a million in the bank woke up to find that it wasn't worth one thousand. (slightly exagerated a bit but you get the point)

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Food was scarce during the Great Depression. People did not have money to purchase much food. The crops also failed through natural causes during this same time period.

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