As landlords find themselves owing more than their properties are worth, some have simply walked away, leaving garbage to pile up. Others have disappeared into bankruptcy, with unpaid utility bills. Some have tried to reduce their losses by neglecting basic maintenance.
"Where am I going to go? Stay in the river?" Davis said, gesturing toward the waterway outside the building. "I don't have money ... I pay rent before I buy food because I know I've got to have a place to stay."
In order to maintain the status quo you must learn to placate the mob. This lesson from history was not missed by the Roman emperors.
Not only did the size of the games increase with time, their frequency did as well. During the Republic they were only held around the time of the winter solstice, for ten to twelve days each year, correlated to the Saturnalia. Augustus then permitted them also around the summer solstice, and later emperors held them whenever they wanted or needed to placate the mob.
Withdrawing stimulus when the people cannot afford a (safe) place to live or eat will only organize the fury of mob. The newswires, the "media", is often nothing more than a conduit for perception management.
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