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      5 days ago

      People jumping out of windows in 1929 was a hoax made up by Winston Churchill trying to convince poor people that rich people were hurting too. One drunk tourist fell off a balcony before the crash, and Churchill manipulated it for propaganda. The first actual suicide on Wall Street in the weeks after the crash was a clerk in her 20s worked to death by her bosses getting rich off the volatility using her as a human high frequency trading computer.