All these people like her, the other-born and the immigrants and the lower-class who no one would hire, they didn’t let the good get stolen from them, did they? It got nicked little by little, every time they were fired with no back pay, or their apartment application was denied for no reason, or they got looks of suspicion on the trolley. To assume they let it happen was to make them responsible for a system that was rotten long before they ever came along.
