Mrs. Klein emerged from the private room looking somewhat dazed.
Ever since she and her husband had gone bankrupt after hyping silver and losing everything, maintaining their lives and staying alive had become their only task.
Before their bankruptcy, they had never imagined that even buying food to sustain themselves could be so difficult.
They had also tried borrowing some money from their family, but...
The Federation's social structure was very peculiar. Everyone focused on the "family," but there was no place for the elderly in that family.
Whether they were celebrities or politicians, anyone who frequently appeared in the media had one thing in common: when you looked at the side they showed the public, you would find no elderly people there.
Families and the elderly rarely even appeared in the same photograph.
Once the children grew up and left home, that family "died."
The children's families were the new families, nurturing new hope. Aside from occasional contact, there was almost no day-to-day interaction between the elderly and their children.
Take Lin Qi, for example.
After leaving his family, he rarely contacted Neil and Sera. If he had not become wealthy, that interaction would have become even less frequent.
Some people believed this was a society that was indifferent to the elderly, but it had been maintained for so many years and would continue to be maintained.
If there had truly been a problem with it, someone would have changed it long ago.
The fact that no one had discussed the issue even now showed how readily the Federation's people accepted it.
In reality, this was also a form of selfishness.
They were clearly family, yet as time passed, they gradually became like strangers.
Perhaps one day, when the elderly person who had once sheltered them from the elements,