Some of those “apartment dwellers” as you put it do work very hard but have put their trust in governmental systems that will fail them...that work ethic and the inventiveness it inspires may help even these find a way to survive if their faith in God is true. You write as if you despise these people. A blessed purging? Even God says “ I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked?”
I said lazy or clueless. To work hard and put faith in the government of the last 100 years to protect the fruits of your labors would be classsified as the latter. Living in a city as things fall apart would be classified likewise. Sorry.
Yes, some of those people are resourceful, and, if so, will get out of Dodge. The rest are not likely to fare well.
The Christian God is quoted as saying many things, a great many of them contradictory. Taken as a whole, the entire conglomeration never made a heck of a lot of sense to me. I am not Christian - please quote them to someone else who buys into all that. An appeal to scripture will not work with me.