After his subordinate finished reporting on the progress of the rescue, Mr. Patu dismissed him and then called Anna.
"...That's the general situation. We need more cold-weather clothing and food. The bottom two levels of the shelter are completely flooded. I haven't had anyone turn on the drainage system yet. I think it might be useful—an added precaution."
After hearing him out, Anna couldn't help admiring one thing about her father: his keen instinct for certain problems.
Conner needed to show people more tragic scenes, not rescue efforts filled with warmth and compassion. Ideally, they would establish more typical examples to win the empathy of the people at the bottom.
If you told the people in the other shelters right now that this shelter's management team was terrible, they would probably have only a vague idea of what that meant.
Even if you told them that six or seven hundred thousand people had died here, to those who had no connection to this place whatsoever, it would merely be a particularly striking number.
They might say, "Oh, my God," and then quickly calm down.
They wouldn't truly feel that this was an utterly terrible thing. After all, it hadn't happened to them.
So they had to use more realistic images to move people's hearts, make them think, and make them firmly reject the idea that something like this could never happen to them!
And for that, they needed images that were more direct and packed with impact.
Although Anna was also a Company Shareholder and a member of the Board of Directors, her seat was far lower than Conner's.
In the past, the status of shareholders in major companies had been tied to how much stock they owned. Now, this was even more so! A difference of merely one Ten