Comment by potato3732842

>I took a train from nyc to chicago recently and felt like I was passing through the higher numbered districts of the hunger games.

Oh man, oh man, the irony.

Formerly industrial areas of the US are poor and dilapidated because the people of places specifically including but not strictly limited to NYC and Chicago (with the help of some voters elsewhere) made big bucks sending all that productivity to poorer nations. The wealth is not there specifically because decisions were made to benefit wall street at those people's expense.

Hunger games was a more apt metaphor for the comparison than I think you thought it was.