The shear between the material fact of people's lives and their perceived social standing has never been greater. Steinbeck and people of his era had the gentl

The shear between the material fact of people's lives and their perceived social standing has never been greater. Steinbeck and people of his era had the gentle and naif conceit that something can be done about this. We DID many of those things, and this is the result. The behavior of our Corporate Overlords is one millionth of the behavior of each of us. I suspect we do this to ourselves.