Schiller stood on the top floor of the Municipal Building, looking down over the city. The steel jungle of Rebar Concrete was continuously tilting, collapsing toward some unknown point. Everything was being drawn into an unknown vortex. And Schiller, who had created this entire mess with his own hands, merely let out a satisfied sigh.
Though the process had been somewhat complicated, Schiller had come here to do only two things: first, remove the cowardly reformists from the game; second, completely intensify the conflict between the upper and lower classes.
Among Schiller's series of measures against the city government, the Pale Rider was gradually excluded from the center of power.
After the city government had initially shut down, the municipal system had remained in a semi-paralyzed state, able to do almost nothing.
Although money had come in later, everyone had been busy lining their own pockets. Very little funding or manpower had actually been put into municipal work. On the contrary, because Schiller had cleaned up their previous bad debts, they had looted even more enthusiastically and had no time for work at all.
Gotham's municipal system had once run poorly, but after the Napier Act was implemented, it had still served some purpose: improving benefits for lower-class communities, while public safety and sanitation had also improved.
After the municipal system became paralyzed, every department stopped working. Communities were no longer maintained, the road system was left to fate, sanitation was ignored, and eventually everything became a complete mess.
This simultaneously sidelined the Pale Rider and made the conflict between the poor and the rich even more intense.
The series of actions against GTO kept Batman running himself ragged, while also causing the organization that had improved Gotham's situation to waver and become less efficient.
This likewise achieved the goals