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For example, the great depression is merely a brief panic and not a downward spiral. There is neither the rise of the Nazi party nor World War II. But later there is a slow-motion crisis of automation, with depression-level unemployment, which we are seemingly less able to deal with it than had it come decades later due to economic growth being broken up.

And at end of the story, or movie, a few characters pull off an escape of sorts in a creative way. And there’s a windswept feeling of freedom and open possibilities.

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And I’d love to hear other possibilities of this general theme. :)
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