Blackpetal remains perfectly motionless as the rock whizzes by her head. She scarcely looks up.
I see physical intimidation is still your first line of defense, Nevver. To answer your question, though, the difference between a technology that maintains our city and human labor maintaining a city is profound. We need not give even a moment's thought to whether our streets are dirty, or whether our buildings are in disrepair, because it is all taken care of automatically.
As for my sympathy, or lack thereof, for the Clans...I would point out that I only wondered to Don about whether we would do any better if forced to maintain our cities by hand, rather than using the robotic workforce Omni-Tek has provided us. I suspect we would not.
As for Savoy's comment about the availability of resources to the Clans, I would suggest that two fairly large, well-maintained areas are hardly evidence of vast untapped wealth. One can certainly argue that maintaining Camelot in the face of other economic issues is a bad use of resources, but it's hardly reasonable to suggest that the maintenance costs would even begin to cover the costs of repairing and rebuilding the infrastructure in Old Athen, let alone the many other places in Clan territory which are in horrible disrepair.
Omni-Tek controls virtually all the wealth on Rubi-Ka. This is a simple matter of fact. Are there wealthy clanners? Yes. Should they be more philanthropic? Certainly, there are some that probably should, but that doesn't change the fact that by any objective standard, the Clans are poor, and Omni-Tek is EXTRAORDINARILY wealthy.
-Blackpetal
