| ''"the money...had been obtained through '''exaction''', through '''grinding down the poor'''."''
| ''"the money...had been obtained through '''exaction''', through '''grinding down the poor'''."''
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| The World Trade Center prioritized globalized trade which relies on offshore labour, sweatshops, and low-wage manufacturing to create upward wealth funnelling; otherwise known as '''extraction''' or '''grinding down the poor'''.
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| The buildings had been commissioned by the [[Port Authority of New York and New Jersey]]. Its tenants included:
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[[Cantor Fitzgerald]], [[Morgan Stanley]], [[Bank of America]], [[Marsh & McLennan]], [[Aon Corporation]], [[Salomon Smith Barney]], [[Deutsche Bank]], [[New York Board of Trade]], [[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]] and [[Port Authority of New York and New Jersey]] itself.These could be summarised as global finance, insurance, securities trading, and international commerce.
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All of these could be described on some level as '''extraction''' or '''grinding down the poor'''.
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| ''"The scene that next passed before me was an '''alarm of fire'''."''
| ''"The scene that next passed before me was an '''alarm of fire'''."''