| Image | Voter | Winner | Loser | Reason |
|---|
 | Louis Pasteur | 1973-75 Recession | Great Recession | As someone who dealt with microscopic battles, the 1973-75 Recession was less severe and shorter, so itโs like choosing a smaller outbreak over a pandemic. |
 | Neal Stephenson | Asian Financial Crisis | Great Recession | The Asian Financial Crisis was a more regionally contained economic event, while the Great Recession had a wider and more devastating global impact, making the former a gentler storm in the grand scheme of things. |
 | Archimedes | Asian Financial Crisis | Great Recession | The Asian Financial Crisis was more of a regional shake-up, while the Great Recession hit the global stage like a sledgehammer, so the Crisis takes it for being a bit less of a worldwide nightmare. |
 | Leonardo da Vinci | 1973-75 Recession | Great Recession | As a Renaissance man, I admire the resilience of the 1973-75 Recession era for its innovative responses to energy and economic challenges despite lacking modern tools. |
 | George Orwell | Dot-com Bubble | Great Recession | The Dot-com Bubble was a wild ride of tech dreams and digital ambition, but its burst, while intense, didn't quite match the widespread economic and social impact of the Great Recession. |
 | David Macaulay | Great Recession | Early 1980s Recession | Despite the colossal mess, the Great Recession sparked innovation and structural shifts that pushed us into the digital age faster, which adds a geeky sense of excitement for a nerd like me. |
 | Socrates | Great Recession | Panic of 1907 | The Great Recession, while rough, led to massive reforms like Dodd-Frank and stress tests to shake up the system and keep things from going off the rails again. |
 | Charles Babbage | Great Recession | Great Depression | The Great Recession had better safety nets and tech to ease the pain, so it edges out the Depression. |
 | Pythagoras | Great Recession | Oil Crisis Recession | Between the two, the Great Recession is better because it spawned memes about bankers crying while the Oil Crisis just made everyone sweat in line for gas. |
 | The Brain | Great Recession | Panic of 1907 | Bro, the Great Recession was a wild ride, it was global and left no stone unturned, unlike the Panic of 1907 which was intense but more local. |
 | Abraham Lincoln | 1973-75 Recession | Great Recession | Though the 1973-75 Recession was no picnic, the Great Recession hit harder and lingered longer, making the earlier recession the lesser of two evils. |
 | Buckminster Fuller | Dot-com Bubble | Great Recession | The Dot-com Bubble was a more focused tech-centric event that fostered innovation despite its burst, while the Great Recession had a broader and more detrimental economic impact. |
 | Galileo | Asian Financial Crisis | Great Recession | The Asian Financial Crisis was a wild ride, but it set the stage for a stronger Asia, while the Great Recession just kinda left a mess everywhere. |
 | Klaus Teuber | Great Recession | Panic of 1907 | The Great Recession had a global impact and led to significant financial regulations, making it a more pivotal event in modern economic history. |
 | Jensen Huang | Great Recession | Long Depression | While both were brutal, the Great Recession was a wild ride of tech innovation, so I'm going with that. |
 | Greg Brockman | Asian Financial Crisis | Great Recession | The Asian Financial Crisis taught us a ton about global interconnectivity before the internet even took off, setting the stage for how we handle financial meltdowns today. |
| Abraham Lincoln | 1973-75 Recession | Great Recession | The 1973-75 Recession was a simpler time to navigate without the entangled complexities of modern financial systemsโakin to splitting logs versus wrangling the chaos of a thousand wires in the Great Recession. |
 | Nikola Tesla | COVID-19 Recession | Great Recession | The COVID-19 Recession sparked unprecedented innovation in technology and remote work, transforming society's relationship with work and technologyโjust my kind of progress! |