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As i was reading the 2 readings, I realized that both selected readings involved businessmen that had a high interest in turning a disaster into a business opportunity and to prevent their business from being damaged by facts.  I then began to read the blog post and noticed that the businessmen and Karl Marx would not see each other in the eye at all. In the writing of Kevin Rozario, it is constantly mentioned that businessmen did not see the disaster as a disaster to business but a huge boon for business. For example, businesses rushed to San Francisco to take part in the reconstruction process instead of leaving or staying away from the city.  Meanwhile, a fire that occurred in New York earlier also attracted businessmen, in which they made even more money to replace the money lost in damages. As mentioned here, the article by Ted Steinberg discusses the methods that business did to prevent money loss. Newspapers attempted to downplay the disaster that struck San Francisco by using evidence to show that the earthquake was not that deadly. These practices of the businesses to benefit from disasters, which can be viewed as taking advantage of the suffering of the lower classes, would most likely clash and reinforce the beliefs of Karl Marx. I admit that they are different scenarios but a connection can be made.  As summarized here, one of the key points of the Communist Manifesto is that the bourgeois takes advantage of the proletariat in order to maintain and increase their wealth. This is somewhat similar to the businesses that took advantage of the disasters to expand their wealth.