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I don't know about that. Not a single person I know or I've met has ever said they were affected by it in any way. In any state.
Well there are two of us right here in the comment section. I had a great job at a startup online retailer. They had a good business model, it was a great place to work.
We had been beating our sales projections and were only a couple months away from being profitable when the Sept 11 attacks happened. Within two weeks, our VC funding stopped and we were all out of jobs because the company owners had to choose between paying rent and paying us. They chose to pay us all severance, bless them for that.
Thankfully I was young, didn't own a house, didn't have kids. But a lot of my colleagues did.
Well there's two of us in this thread saying otherwise.
Checkmate
So according to this thread, 50% of people got affected by the dotcom bubble, right?
I went and looked up some actual numbers. According to this article:
So a lot of people if you put them all in a room together, but not a huge number across the global economy.
Sure. Why not. If you're an idiot.