> the Great Depression in the early nineteen hundreds, and the effect of that was minor compared to the effects of extreme inflation (hyperinflation) that occu

> the Great Depression in the early nineteen hundreds, and the effect of that was minor compared to the effects of extreme inflation (hyperinflation) that occurred in places like Weimar Germany and Zimbabwe. Millions unemployed, dependent on soup lines for survival, and their families living in makeshift shanty towns, is "minor"? Children were sold to provide subsistence. Generational wealth, from industries to family farms, were erased.