Answer: Consumerism is what lead to the Great Depression. People bought too many goods they didn’t need and people ran up debts with buying on margin. Also, with a demand of goods they increased production, which lead to a surplus of unnecessary goods being produced.
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It was primarily the business and shop owners in the west that <span>profited the most from the California Gold Rush, since finding gold was relatively rare, but the surge of people hoping to find gold boosted the economy of the west as a whole. </span>