The United States finally felt the impact of all the money that had been funneled from its public infrastructure, the privatization of its roads, its hospitals, its disaster relief. Neglected roads couldn’t handle the strain of emergency vehicles evacuating people. Fires burned unchecked over cities because too few people had been trained to respond, and those unmanned drones used for surveillance and breaking up raucous crowds weren’t designed for humanitarian efforts. Local water utilities were in disrepair, and pipes burst under the strain. Companies that owned roads tried to enforce their
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