Social Security is not a top candidate for extending the last Depression, though it could figure in this one. It&#x27;s important to note that the real awesome things for prolonging the last Great Depression were genius moves like the Agricultural Adjustment Act (price supports and paying farmers to not-grow crops while burning crops deliberately in the midst of famine, plus laying the foundations for every modern lefty&#x27;s favorite Big Agribusiness complex) and all the centralized economic planning under the National Recovery Administration (industrial collusion and price fixing on both the local and national levels).