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In chapter 3, Kevin Rozario, explians how the middle, as well as the upper class in society, profit off of disasters that can be earthquakes, fires, floods, wars, or even just destroying property with the intent of building something new. He explains how throughout history disasters have destroyed cities, but that the destruction of city has been revolutionized to be  a positive thing. Especially in the Capitalistic world. He goes on to explain how that if a city is destroyed you have the potential to build something more impressive, modern, and profitable. He also states that although lower class people do not benefit because most of the time their home and valuable items are destroyed, wealthier people can but the land for a cheap price and turn it into something more profitable for themselves. He also explains how in New York, they would constantly destroy and rebuild to gain more profit. This was possible because of capitalism, unlike Marxism as, JohnKane, explains their intentions, “Their plan had many steps that needed to be taken in order to achieve this goal; some included seizing private property, nationalizing factories and agricultural production, and regulating production throughout the market”. With the controlling of land, the idea of destroying to rebuild would be irrelevant, because they would’t see it as useful, because not too any people would profit from it, thus making people content with what they had, and not wanting to modernize themselves. Chapter 4 goes more into detail about Disasters but still mentions how class is a issue. The disaster which it talks about, is the Earthquake of San Francisco, which caused many deaths to undocumented Chinese immigrants. The author explains how the upper class tried to blame the damage of the city on fire, rather than the actual earthquake, so that they could still convince people to live in the city. However many people knew that the fire wasn’t to blame, but rather that the upper and middle class wanted to turn this disaster that mostly happened to the immigrants into a way to profit off of their damaged properties. People knew this and still wrote against the upper class and stated the facts, that the city was damaged by earthquakes, and by doing so stand ups against the upper class and supports ZHEDRICK‘s idea that, “Though this work can be seen as a call to arms, it is better used as a framework for a growing working class to understand the inherent powers they hold over the middle and upper classes”. The power they held was to expose the truth that the city was a risk, because of the damage the earthquakes could cause.