Thanks to welfare schemes and unemployment benefits, many of which have their origins in those dark days, joblessness no longer plunges people into destitution, at least in the developed world.

• 多亏了起源于上世纪三十年代的大萧条时期的福利和失业金制度，失业者才不至于陷入贫困，至少在发达国家是这样的。