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So is this yet another cliché book saying "rich people are really mean and poor people are really good"?

[Name Redacted] Despite the attempt at nuance in the other respondent's answer, "rich people are really mean and poor people are really good" IS a cliche, regardless …moreDespite the attempt at nuance in the other respondent's answer, "rich people are really mean and poor people are really good" IS a cliche, regardless of ethnicity -- mainly because it's universal. You can watch a movie or read a book with exactly that message in just about every language, with just about every ethnicity as a protagonist. Heck, the 90s "Oddworld" video game series has that message but substitutes extraterrestrial aliens for both groups.

That said, this book seems to be criticizing the political class just as much as the rich, indicting those who are so intent on public praise/approval and so convinced of their own moral rectitude that they lose the capacity for empathy towards their fellow humans -- and that is a message that could be applied to anyone on the political spectrum. Likewise, the book indicts organized crime and gang culture and their tendency to prey on the very people who join them and/or support them. *shrug*(less)

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Can anybody compare this book to the Marrow Thieves for me?

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