his business, the Building and Loan, made it possible for ordinary working families to afford mortgages on homes
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Replying to @arthur_affect
without its presence, Mr Potter's bank is able to steadily push individual owner-occupiers into foreclosure
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he buys up most of the residential housing, turns half of it into slums and the other half into sleazy commercial property
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hell the historical inflection point is even given - Potter tells us when he's trying to seduce George to work for him
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in 1929 when the crash hits Potter and Bailey are the only two creditors to remain solvent, everyone else goes bankrupt
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if the B&L didn't exist Potter could've literally bought the whole town during the Depression
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without the new manufacturing, a town of Pottersville's size would have likely emptied out by this point, esp during the war
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the plastics factory (that George gives up the chance to work in) comes to town in both timelines though
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but he's the one that suggests to Sam that it moves to BF instead of Rochester!
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hmm true, I hadn't thought about that
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I think IAWL would be less heartwarming but darker and maaaaybe more accurate if without him Pottersville is a ghost town
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