[Sodium_noir] Hell is Other People

[Mara Ravenclaw]

Allen Bradley, Marguerite Sinclair, Mara Ravenclaw
A Pair of Mortals and a Vamp
Sinclair Mansion
   
"I've always been of the mind that one helps the other.  It's really no use to build luxury condominiums if the people living there don't have a job to pay for them, is it?"  There was a beat of silence while Bradley studied Ravenclaw's reaction.

Mara keeps her face decidedly neutral and unreadable, though her tone seems to imply agreement.  "No."  She replies.  "Henry Ford was similarly minded, as I recall.  He paid higher wages because he felt his workers should be able to afford the products they made.  He called it Welfare Capitalism.  Such a pity that most companies don't practice it these days."  

"I'm sorry, Ms. Ravenclaw, but you've asked touched a bit of a raw nerve.  As I was telling Mr. Fresserei," Bradley gestured to the portly man still holding a captive audience on the other side of the room, "those of us with means have an obligation to help those without.  But the only way we can do that is by giving people who need help the opportunity to bring themselves out of poverty."  Mara began to see a few cracks in Bradley's bland façade as he warmed to the subject.
   
At his mention of Fresserei, Mara's bland exterior shows cracks as she tries to hide her contempt for the man and the company he worked for.  She quickly changes the subject.  "A hand up, not a handout.  Much like what my own firm attempts to do."   

"After all, I'm sure that most of the people at St. Bridget's would rather have the means to pay for their own apartment and groceries rather than beg for handouts and table scraps.  Make jobs available and people will fill them.  And once enough jobs are filled, building luxury condos becomes a better business proposition."
   
Mara nods, though she didn't agree with the statement.  She'd worked with the homeless long enough to know their many varieties.  And while some were on the street due to hard luck, others were hopelessly insane, let loose on the public during the Reagan era.  Still others were addicted to drugs of various legal and illegal sorts.  The latter were more interested in their next fix than a place to live. The crazies, you rarely knew what they wanted.  

"That it does."  Mara replies.     
  
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