Feed's class inequality

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Feed by M.T Anderson is a dystopian novel that creates a futuristic world that relies heavily on implanted technology devices and big corporations' business. This novel follows a group of teens that are a product of the new “Earth” and struggles to see what reality is. In his novel, M.T Anderson presents a world that is segregated, not by race or religion but instead by economic class. Titus and his friends are the wealthy elite that have access to many products amongst the feed. Titus and his friends are so pampered that they are oblivious to non-wealthy people’s problem. We see examples of this throughout the novel when reading about the current condition of the Earth’s environment. The mass amount of pollution produced by big companies are causing the deaths of many people all over the world. The privileged life that Titus and his friends have lived is separated so far away from this devastation that feeling the need to take responsibility for their actions do not register within them.  Finally, after being hacked Titus “... saw fields and fields of black, it was this disgusting black shit, spread for miles. I saw walls of concrete fall from the sky and crush little wood houses. I saw a furry animal trying to stand up on its legs, but the back ones were broken or not working, and it dragged itself with the front ones, whimpering, through someplace with gray dust, and needles coming out of the sand. Its jaws were open. I saw long cables going through the sea.” Before meeting Violet Titus never, associated himself with the lower class which means he never met anyone who did not have the same wealthy status as he. His encounters with Violet make him realize that people do live poor lifestyles.  The importance of wealth separation in this novel is that the balance of inequality will always remain the same in this society because the wealthy keeps creating problems that the working class must fix.  

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