text: What really struck me in Skidelsky 's account , however , was the extent to which conventional opinion in the 1920s viewed high unemployment as a good thing , a sign that excesses were being corrected and discipline restored--so that even a successful attempt to reflate the economy would be a mistake .
  
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  That view suggested unemployment as a sign that excesses were being corrected and discipline restored , even though it 's always a bad thing nowadays .