everybody believes every sector bounces back until a specific one doesn’t and stays gone for 20+ years.
even then, someone can get elected and cake up by promising to get it back.
i was in the exhausted, abandoned Appalachian coal fields in the 2010s and there were plenty of small business tyrants in ghost towns eager to believe coal was just about to come back when obama ruined everything.
its not to say many, if not most, totally knew shit was over and never coming back. but the true believers tended to be in charge of shit, threw their weight around more, and acted like naysayers were gonna undermine the comeback with their lack of faith.
Same shit in Maine. There was a woman up there who was buying a bunch of land in one area in order to donate it to the National Park system, and it pissed off a bunch of people who thought she was going to kill the paper mill comeback that they insisted was just around the corner.
As devastating as the pulp mill shutdown a few decades ago was to my old hometown, the air has never been cleaner. The mill was within walking distance of the downtown core because it started over a century ago and workers had to live within walking distance. Private automobiles were the height of luxury back then.
everybody believes every sector bounces back until a specific one doesn’t and stays gone for 20+ years.
even then, someone can get elected and cake up by promising to get it back.
i was in the exhausted, abandoned Appalachian coal fields in the 2010s and there were plenty of small business tyrants in ghost towns eager to believe coal was just about to come back when obama ruined everything.
its not to say many, if not most, totally knew shit was over and never coming back. but the true believers tended to be in charge of shit, threw their weight around more, and acted like naysayers were gonna undermine the comeback with their lack of faith.
Same shit in Maine. There was a woman up there who was buying a bunch of land in one area in order to donate it to the National Park system, and it pissed off a bunch of people who thought she was going to kill the paper mill comeback that they insisted was just around the corner.
They really missed that paper mill smell
As devastating as the pulp mill shutdown a few decades ago was to my old hometown, the air has never been cleaner. The mill was within walking distance of the downtown core because it started over a century ago and workers had to live within walking distance. Private automobiles were the height of luxury back then.