I don't understand why the banker wanted to buy everybody's home. The farmer said that bankers steal from hard working people. I don't think that explains why the banker wanted to evict everybody.
shareIt is very much like what is going on in our ecomomy today. People are falling on hard times, unemployment is high and people are unable to make their mortgage payments. When banks do not receieve their payments, they foreclose on the property and sometimes will auction the property to anyone who can pay on the note or back taxes. Bankers only care about receiving their payments. They seldom know the people they are foreclosing on. In this case, the storekeeper had the means to pay the notes on the homes so the bank forfeited the property to him
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