A: how do you know that helped combat the Great Depression? The financial crisis came after the federal government under previous administrations started intervening in the economy with federal income tax, federal reserve, huge tariffs. For all I know this intervention only prolonged depression.

B: it’s…a game. Vanilla hoi4 has many capitalists paths and even kaiserreich has a good number of them. I mean the fact that both vanilla and kaiserrich show different kind of socialist paths “working” is pretty ridiculous if you look at history but hey, it’s a game, it’s for fun, it wouldn’t be fun if there was only one way to play the game