> I don't think it's that many people aspire to be a landlord. I think it was a reference to this famous quote: > John Steinbeck once said that socialism neve

> I don't think it's that many people aspire to be a landlord. I think it was a reference to this famous quote: > John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. -- Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress