Large automobile corporations, such as Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors, had made such huge profits during the 1920s that the cutbacks of the Depression only curtailed large increases in profits. So the other small companies wasnt making much money and people got poor overnight. The problem was getting this abundance to the needy. This unevenness of finances caused problems for the nation's economy. The rich attempted to get richer, and the poor only managed to survive.