Was the Earthquake a Good Thing?

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In this chapter, Rozario focuses on the San Francisco disaster as if it was a good thing, making it seem as if San Francisco really needed it.  Despite the high death toll and destruction of society, Rozario makes claims of how the disaster was more of a blessing in disguise for the city (73.)  Because of the fire, the people were then able to re-structure the modern environment and increase capitalism.  In @ramsescastillo03’s work, he talked about how the people of San Francisco at the time were completely blind; not physically, but just the fact at how they were looking past the many deaths that had taken place for the sake of money.  The greed in society not only then but even today is ridiculous.  People are willing to look past thousands of deaths just for the sake of a dollar.  A quote that I found interesting in Rozario’s work was “Although cities might fall, they never just died (77.”)  I agree that society can be given a second chance, but it is up to the people that will determine how society is rebuilt from the ashes.  Either the people can look at the damages and deaths brought out from the disaster and rebuild society as a team to be prepared for the next disaster, or everyone can simply just think about themselves and worry about monetary value.  Either way, as long as people only care about themselves, the selfish problem will never be fixed within society.