His worldview has much in common with the liquidationists of the 1930s who thought the Depression, in which America's unemployment rate reached nearly 25%, was a necessary purging of the economy.

他的世界观与20世纪30年代的清算主义者有许多相似之处，后者认为，大萧条是对经济的必要清洗，当时美国失业率达到了近25%。