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The irony of this is that Hitler did have good business connections. Fascism cannot rise to power without strong support of big industry. Trump is trying to forge similar connections with the oil industry currently, offering to slash environmental regulations in exchange for a big campaign donation.
Both. Hitler did the same thing with the big businesses at the time. He promised them greater profits and reduced regulations in exchange for their support.
You definitely had the ability to invest in the US/UK stock markets from Berlin during the 1920s. The Black Tuesday 1929 Wall Street crash kicked off a shockwave of economic contraction that toppled multiple European governments, Germany included.
I have to assume that a hypothetical alt-history Hitler who was heavily invested in the DOW Jones in 1929 would have felt just about the same way.
If I were a good writer, I would write a science fiction story that was about a guy who goes back in time and convinces the art school that this Hitler kid isn't very good yet, but he has a lot of promise, so accept him.
So I hang around social media with a lot of Nazis (I have a fake white Facebook alt to befriend them and get them banned), and many of them collect prints of Hitler's art. It's pretty awful.
Eh, you're only delaying the holocaust for about a year that way. Hitler was a talentless hack and he'd never make it in the art world in any timeline.
You would need to teach him the way of the artist statement. His bullshit would be 100 years ahead of anyone else and he would effortlessly conquer the art world. Men would still be wearing those goofy little moustaches and people would rob banks wearing masks of his face.
I try to think with this approach of grace as well.
It's uncomfortable for us to realize that the descent to mass murdering supervillain is simply the festering of frustration and helplessness combined with blame and opportunity to act that hatred.
It'd be fascinating to see what happens if he was set up with a lovely Jewish art teacher that believed in his ability to improve.
Seriously would people nowadays be streaming old archive footage of "Painting Happily with Adolph Hitler" (holy crap that was awkward to type) and would Bob Ross be citing him as an influence?
Would History Channel have any material?
Of course the "fun" part of this thought experiment is that evil seizes power wherever there's opportunity, and some other maniac would have taken the role, inevitably.
People are absolutely responsible for their own actions, but also the truth is that a series of neglects and bad influences, especially in formative years, can program someone into a monster that just requires the catalyst to act on it before they cease to be human any longer...
Sooo... Hitler in that timeline would yet be another capitalist growing their wealth thanks to the mass-murder and exploitation people like Hitler in this timeline creates.
Yeah, can this guy tell us again how companies are morally good life-saving constructs and the uber-rich wouldn't just find some other atrocity to profit from? 🤔
I come from a big accounting firm, so most of what I see are former colleagues who've made partner posting about occupational efficiencies and how much financial gain they accomplish.
Some of them are complete blithering idiots who've failed upwards and now think they're geniuses
Others are just complete psychopaths who would gladly shiv their own mothers in the neck for a fraction of a step up the ladder. Hell, they would boast about doing so.
The latter facilitates and nurtures a toxic culture of stabbing your coworkers in the back at every possible opportunity for your own gain wherein saying anything good about a coworker, especially a subordinate, is a sign of weakness and considered sinful.
But on LinkedIn, they're all the heroes of their own narratives.
If I had a time machine, I'd go back and try to awaken Hitler's creative side. I feel like getting him into writing, or maybe art, would be beneficial. It couldn't possibly go wrong.
That's an excellent idea. One of the things that I've read is that conservatives have lowered creativity and probably expanding that would help him not be a goddamned Nazi.
TL;DR total wages rose because people worked longer hours. The economy was forced into, effectively, a war economy upheld with deficit spending (like America was doing with the New Deal, but with tanks instead of roads).
The scam continued with the annexation of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and the stolen wealth and enslavement of the first Holocaust victims paying those debts.
TL;Dr;tl;Dr
They paid for their tanks with IOUs and then stole a bunch of gold with the tanks
My comment never at any point claimed it was sustainable or that their economic growth was ethical and somehow beneficial to the population. In the context of this post, that has someone talking about how Hitler would be nicer if he was financially successful I said that because to him he was successful, and to the countries economy he really was. Economic performance has nothing to do with a population's quality of life, as it can be seen in China, but even so, when compared to Weimar republic it was still arguably better for everyone,which is the lowest bar ever.
I'm not a nazi apologist, none of that makes what they did right or desireable, I'm just pointing it out that nothing would have changed if the likedin''s insane post actually came true. Heck, if he made more money he would just spend even more on the army just like your own link says, the economy' s only purpuse to him was to build an army so they could steal more through conquest.