Talk:Amon/@comment-24.22.146.42-20120727151333/@comment-35.9.62.225-20120727191629

Sokka was a councilmember, but I don't think there are any non-benders on the council right now. Even if there are, they are WAY under-represented. That's a problem. Not to mention that there are no non-benders on the city police force. Another troublesome scenerio.

Hiroshi Sato was stated to be an exception to the norm. He lives a wealthy lifestyle because he's a self-made man; most of the wealthy families have royal heritage of some sort and are therefore mostly benders.

Final issue, benders have more job opportunities than non-benders. We saw that Mako could get a job bending lightning. That's probably only one of many jobs that are available only to benders.