Thursday, September 4 - Historical Accuracy

The Great Depression, a major event occurring on the twenty-fourth of October, 1929 where the stock market crashes. It was foreseen, yet it was already too late when it happened. Uncertainty and mass confusion takes place, and by the next year, a 3.2 percent unemployment rate eventually gets its way to 8.7 percent, and only getting worse as the days go by. By 1932, the unemployment rate rises to 23.6 percent and taxes are only getting more expensive. The rich are getting richer and the poor and getting poorer. What a great opportunity to take advantage of Americans by demanding physical labor at unfair hours with unfair working environments. Steel beams thousands of feet in the air, was all most of these workers had to stand on during the construction of the Empire state building in New York. Little of what we know is that extraterrestrial lifeforms visited the construction of the building during the Great Depression to help these workers complete their task.
The human workers explained their trouble, having no work left so they must be up here risking their lives to build for the rich people being paid poor wages. While the wealthy sit at their desks counting their money, checking what is left of their stocks, they depend on the less fortunate to do everything else for them. The martians saw this unfair, yet couldn't do anything or it would attract attention of the general public. No one paid attention to the workers anyhow, so the martians used their super alien strength to help alleviate the labor of the workers. They had the strength of ten men put together, so moving beams and structures were no problem. The martians explained that they would not be here if the human race banded together and helped one another, that is why their species is so advanced. Cooperation is key. They explained of a time where greed and hate filled the hearts of many, leaving the rest behind. Something they would only tell these workers, as no one else would listen, all the rich care about is money. It was almost better to be unemployed than to be workers for greedy corporations, from a moral standpoint, yet with the current situation there was nothing they could do, and with the great second World War coming up, nothing can be said or done about hate-filled hearts, they'll be making even more money making supplies while the voices of the citizens are overwhelmed by cries of war.
The martians let them know of future events, since they are indeed time travelers. Why tell those workers of the Empire state building though? Their voices are never heard anyways, who will believe them? This was the main idea, business before anything else. The aliens got their point across, telling them would make no difference since their are the lowest of humans, yet they are depended on by everybody.