In reading this chapter, there’s one thing that really
grabbed my attention. Not because it’s a major event but I feel that history is
repeating itself in a scenes. Reasons to why Europeans left their lands raised
a big flag to me and made me really wonder, could this happen again?
First, taxes were really high on them and at one point it
became hard on them to live a healthy life style. Comparing it to the present,
the rich is getting richer and the poor is going poorer with all the tax
policies and people are being pushed out of their houses, jobs, and pretty much
everything.
70-80% of the European were peasants, you may not see it the
way I do. However, some of us are “slaves” to our jobs, superiors, Gov., or who
ever provide the cash at the end of the day. Also, with the baby boomers and
population rapidly increasing, its getting harder and harder to find fair
opportunities and in the Europeans situation they were pushed out of their
lands and properties by the property clam movement. People started to lose
their living spaces and were pushed out to their point where there was no place
to live. When you think about this part, I really feel like you can easily
relate to it. Big corporations are pushing people out of their houses,
apartments, and the rent controlled areas to get more money out of it. So where
do the people go?
To me it made me fear what is the future holding. Reading and
understanding past generations and their dilemmas makes me really think, what
about us?
