In addition, their primary need for profit overshadowed Flint's problems and lessened the economic contributions to the city. Fallow's ideas are similar to Kay's remarks by noting, "how much less talk there is about the poor" (357) because many people are more concerned about wealth rather than the poor and jobless citizens. Also in Fallow's article, a woman named Angelica Rosete points out how "people who own factories or businesses treat the poor people really badly" (358). This proves how a majority of upper class workers, such as Kay, do not treat lower class employees fairly. Therefore, wealthy citizens are less likely to show concern for lower class workers because of their economic status.
A problem that arises from the GM layoffs would be that many of the jobless people were evicted from their homes. In "Roger and Me," a woman name Rhonda, who was nicknamed the "Bunny Lady," sold rabbits as pets or meat in order to pay her monthly rent. This shows how many people were in desperate need of making money to support them. Some of the ways people obtained money were by donating blood for cash and by being human statues at a Gatsby party. Fred Ross, a deputy, evicted the jobless people out of their homes because they were not able to pay rent. This situation ties in with Fallows" idea about how "we feel bad for [the poor], but they live someplace else" (360). This idea is similar to the film because most of the jobless citizens were evicted from their homes simply because they could not pay rent. So even though we may feel bad for the poor, we do not do anything about it because we are not living under the same conditions. Crime rate also increased because people were trying to survive by any means necessary, even if it meant committing a crime. The county jail eventually started to get crowded. This shows how jobless people were desperate to get money in order to survive.
