The desperate pictures of rural America that show 1930s-style depression actually lasted until the SIXTIES
http://www.newsforage.com/2013/01/the-desperate-pictures-of-rural-america.html
Five crotch droppin's in the first picture. And it happens all over the place, despite deplorable living conditions. I'd say the human race was beyond hope in the intelligence department. The smart ones are always killed off.
And if you don't agree, how would you like to be born into that lifestyle? Have fun reincarnating into it next time around, huh?