After reading all the readings, I wanted to specifically focus on the long journey. I wanted to focus on it because I can almost king of see it in my everyday life here in America, not to the extremes that Mexicans were dealing with during that time, but I can see the same structure in the people and class composition here. What really stuck with me was how Marcos explained the class structure through three terms, the lower class, the middle class, and then the penthouse class. Almost the entirety of the population in Mexico at the time were living in the lower or middle class with only the richest 24 people live in the penthouse class. This class disparity feels very dystopian to me, as the the richest of the rich live in another world compared to the majority of the population, they live as though everyone else in Mexico doesn't exist. With their wealth and power, these people are able to completely control the population and use them to work and boost their wealth. This is very much what we see in America, with corporations that have too much money and too much power use these to force workers to work more hours for less pay and less benefits, making us move closer to being slaves then we are to workers. Seeing the Mexicans revolt for this injustice shows that forcing a change with force does work and might be what we will have to resort to in the near future here in America.
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