How the Other Half Lives

[Lilith7]

"If heÔÇÖll take twenty five, IÔÇÖll do it for twenty. ÔÇÿNo, me. IÔÇÖm hungry. IÔÇÖll work for fifteen. IÔÇÖll work for food.'

And this was good, for wages went down & prices stayed up. The great owners were glad & they sent out more handbills to bring more people in. And wages went down & prices stayed up. And pretty soon now weÔÇÖll have serfs again.

And now the great owners invented a new method. A great owner bought a cannery. And when the peaches & pears were ripe he cut the price of fruit below the cost of raising it. And as cannery owner he paid himself a low price for the fruit & kept the price of canned goods up & took his profit."

John Steinbeck, The grapes of wrath


Its all happening again...