Building homes near abandoning mines.
Property cheap.
But residents were in the dark about ticking mine sinkholes swallowing homes.
Good metaphor for building civilization on, not-so-solid foundations.
Economic/political systems with histories of tyrannies & oppression.
Plus a Globalized Media that promotes them.
All so - as Dorothy says in - Alice In Wonderland,
“The more for me; the less for you.”.