Unlike many of his schoolmates, mason does not own a laptop or home computer. he is a victim of a term that describes the fact that poorer adolescents and some minority groups have less access to computers than more affluent groups.

The digital divide

Explanation:

When there is an inequality of access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) among different people in a society it is known as a digital divide. In other words it is the gap among individuals or groups in terms of access to ICT.

The digital divide was much higher a decade back but now with mobile phones becoming cheaper the divide is reducing.

panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.