That\u2019s a good read, and a good question.
The immediate impact - I was a few years out of college in LA at the time, and I remember that we as hipsterish young people in the big city were in high demand as \u201cinfluencers\u201d and so brands would underwrite all sort of free parties and just give us free alcohol, that had been a little ridiculous but it ended with the crash.
Also I did kinda lose a job, I wrote some video game manuals for a contact at THQ. Which was, to hear her tell it, fat and lazy and redundantly staffed. In the wake of the crash they trimmed staff, her included, but it eventually collapsed anyway.
On a longer scale, I moved to Portland in 2011, and any influence of the national economy on my life was swamped by the local specificity, booming from the low income/low cost-of-living \u201cwhere young people go to retire\u201d Portlandia to today\u2019s increasingly grinding Seattle South.
And that\u2019s really part of the back-to-the-city trend that predated \u201908, Williamsburg was the thing while I was still in college, maybe you can tie it back in if you read the 2008 crash as the failure of sprawl development as an economic engine.
That\u2019s the direct impact, so arguably no, it didn\u2019t impact me that much.
It did deeply affect me in the wake seeing how challenges, individual or collective, that would have had money thrown at them if it was available resolved instead as hits to like \u201csocial peace\u201d or \u201ctrust\u201d or \u201cbelief in legitimating narratives\u2019, realizing these things were fungibly tradeable against raw cash and had only existed as an epiphenomenon of good times in the first place. That really hadn\u2019t been a thing in the golden womb I lived in since I came to awareness, and that\u2019ll stick with me.
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