DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.