Sofia Lamb to Rapture to help mitigate the psychological problems unfortunately, her own ambitions would lead her to escalate tensions instead of alleviating them. For his part, Ryan recognized this issue and had invited a psychologist named Dr. Many of the citizens of the city toiled under considerable psychological strain due to Rapture's isolated and confined environment. Ryan had created Rapture, and thus he determined the rules by which the city operated leaving the rest of the population in relatively-impotent advisory positions or politically and economically marginalized. Despite the Objectivist intent that any man could rise to the top based on merit alone, political and economic power was largely confined to the hands of Andrew Ryan he was the driving force behind Rapture's construction, he financed the project, and Ryan Industries was a seemingly unassailable economic powerhouse within the city. Frank Fontaine saw this more clearly than most, and set out to exploit those inequalities to gain power for himself. In a highly stratified society such as Rapture, with inequality between the rich and poor, a substantial amount of class conflict was inevitable. From the outset, Ryan's philosophy mandated a "law of the jungle" based commercial environment in which the strong thrived and the weak were left behind. Rapture did not collapse in a single day, as there was a long chain of events that made the Civil War possible. Already they grow weary of struggling against one another in fruitless competition.” ― Sofia Lamb “ Under Ryan, the voices of an entire city sing the virtues of greed and pride. The Elite of Rapture Society in 1952: Brigid Tenenbaum, Sander Cohen, Gilbert Alexander, Andrew Ryan, Sofia Lamb, and Yi Suchong.
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