"These things happen to the poor people who live in exposed areas. Society is set up in such a way that it's the poor and uneducated people who suffer the main impact of natural and man-made disasters."
-Don DeLillo, 112
In American Studies, we have been focusing on social class, economic class, and what comes with the territory of each. Here, DeLillo is commenting on society and the way it is organized. Those with less money have less power, right? Those with less money, according to DeLillo, are the ones that are supposed to take the main impact of disasters.Are those who are poor more deserving of hardship and disaster? Why is society organized in a way that money means safety and power? Is money the way America actually measures how much power a person has? Is this a fair system?
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