What did he mean by this?

What did he mean by this?

>WAHH PEOPLE WONT HELP ME ROB THE RICH BECAUSE THEY THINK ITS IMMORAL

>FUCKING MORALFAGS YOU'RE NOT RICH SO ITS NOT LIKE I'D ROB YOU ANYWAYS WHY DO YOU EVEN CARE????

Socialism aint that much better buddy

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>how dare those poor people have ambition beyond gibsmedat

People only read Steinbeck's shit because they require it in school

Rich people have no ambition beyond gibsmedat. They just call them "dividends" instead of "welfare". Same thing, money you get for not working.

Literally just read Of Mice and Men.

American education everyone. No wonder Sanders was one of the candidates.

writers are really good at insulting everyone at once

In America people get rich

Also did he really say this? I've read some of his books and it's always about secluded farming Americans
You know the group that generally just wants to be left the fuck alone

Americans dont see themselves as displaced millionaires (well some do)
Americans just want to be left the fuck alone and that includes ignoring the government for the most part

American Education? I mean the United States has the best universities in the world. And you're from the Czech Republic. Faggot...

Poor chicken, he was a good namefag.

Dividends in exchange for investing money in a risky venture you fucking thief.

I think that's a false quote.

>people actually think the American Dream works

you really missed some major themes of Grapes of Wrath.

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You are ten ranks bellow us in exact sciences scores, you genderqueerkin marxist faggot.

Your money working for you =/= taking other peoples' money

One of his books I didnt read
Honestly ive only read of mice and men and east of Eden

Jesus christ you're autistic.

I bet if you had won a million dollars, you wouldn't invest it for "muh dividends", even though at a rate of return of only 3.5%, you'd be making more than a McDonald's employee for life.

it used to be real.
>go to USA
>buy acres for pennies
>find gold
or
>land is useless for crops
where poor men became rich and rich men lost everything.
if we get rid of niggers in africa we can do it again.

That white workers of the world must unite for race war now.

He means people will listen to some rich blond haired faggot blame brown people for American's problems. They see him as an authority figure because he has money, but fail to realize that him and his millionaire friends are the real problem. Poor fags think that they're friends with these millionaires too but in reality 1% doesn't give a fuck about them.

>being this retarded

I don't give a fuck. There are hundreds of millions of stupid Americans. The public high schools here are not great. But we still produce the greatest scholars in the world. And we still have the best universities in the world. What I'm saying is that your sense of superiority is 100% unearned. Faggot.

Where does someone go wrong in their life to become as retarded as this one? The quote is lefty bullshit but its not even close to whatever shit your spouting.

Its earned. Unless you are one of those scholars you are an average American like me who had a less than decent education. Therefore he can in fact claim that you are comparatively more retarded than him statistically.

That he thinks socialism is cool

The only socialism that is half cool is the national variety desu and that's because they put their culture and society first (and because they hate commies)

Anyway I don't know why writers tend to have a hate boner for capitalism
Do they actually believe socialism would make their lives better? The only thing that has made life "better" is technology and even that is argued

Shit like this is why flags need to be removed from Sup Forums

I am one of those scholars. I'm a PhD student in one of the top ten math graduate programs in the country.

This. Quote is often erroneously attributed to Steinbeck. It's from some other Faggot.

Sure u are champwa

Here in the US, the poor don't see themselves as poor: they just ain't rich yet.

These "what did xyz mean by abc" threads are so fucking retarded.

>Anyway I don't know why writers tend to have a hate boner for capitalism

Probably leftover bitterness from the periods when they were broke and desperately trying to get published. Of course when they make it big it's still a good promotional tactic to identify with whatever movement is dominating the counter-culture

Get rich or try dying.

oh noes, the americans had some resistance to the soviet indoctrination attempts that were so successful in europe they are now even welcoming invading barbarians with open arms.

Who is he? Is he South American? Why are South Americans dogmatically predisposed to Marxism? Should we not consider extermination? Or at the very least sterilization? I'm actually quite upset that such premium land is occupied by sub-human filth. We need the living space and we need to consider extermination as a viable solution to solving the problem of South America.

It kind of makes me sad, because it harkens back to a time when things like upward mobility, industry, and the american dream werent on their way out.

I remember my grandpa talking about his career in the timber mill. He started at age 15 with an 8th grade education as a floor sweeper. He worked hard and took night classes and after 5 years was getting paid 30% more to operate and maintain a boiler.

Using good old intuition and learned on the job knowledge he figured out there were some changes to the system that while costly, would lower maintenance costs in the long run and increase efficiency and pay for itself twice over the increased life of the system.

He became foreman, and then eventually plant manager. This farm boy from the sticks with only 8 years of official schooling was rubbing elbows with the suits who owned the place and retired on a pension that when adjusted for inflation was worth more than most folks make nowdays.

Today?
No industry, its all in china. What littleupward mobility in a company exists comes with a fraction of the benifits and perks promotions used to come with. Pension? Good fucking luck, companies are getting rid of that shit.

Now days you can generate hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in profits and if you are lucky the company will pay for half of your shitty bareley covers anything medical plan and you will count yourself lucky that they even bothered.

Because thanks to globalism you are now competing with some chink who is willing to do your job for 25 cents an hour for zero benifits and if you dont eat the shit and proclaim that it tastes like icecream your job will just move east.

Almost all jobs are service related now. Design a new logo and marketing campaign for a product?

Doesnt fucking matter, because instead of an american commodity made by americans to drive an american industry its a chinese product made by chinks to drive corporate bonuses for executives.

((((Steinbeck))))

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What the fuck is a champwa?

He meant that he's a communist faggot.

The reason upward mobility is gone is because literally nobody raised in America today has the work ethic and dedication that your grandfather did.

Our wealth has spoiled us. We want it handed to us with minimal effort. We aren't willing to settle for less than what we feel entitled to.

he is a faggot
socialism never takes root here b/c we will light the world on fire before we give up our guns so socialists can't have the monopoly on force to try their idiot ideas.

That with a can-do attitude anything is possible

This is partially true, but also ignoring some things.

Inflation for one. The powers that be have been trumpeting how low inflation is since we left the gold standard 50 years ago.

So our dollar is half what it was, but that calculation is still ignoring some things.

Specifically commodities and housing. Commodities are doubling, tripling, and quadrupling in price every few years, but wages arent.

For example, the average price of a house in 1950 was $8,500. Adjusted to modern inflation thats $85,000.

Todays average price of a house in 2015 was $325,000

The average minimum wage in 1950 was 75 cents per hour, $7.50 in todays money.


So why are house prices over 3 times higher, but wages are only a few percent higher?

THAT is why the american dream is dead.

It really doesnt matter if you arent lazy, you CAN NOT succeed if wages only increase 10 percent while commodities and price of living go up 300 percent.

The question is, where is all of this money ending up?

If commodities are selling for 300 percent more where is the wage increase, by the traditional model we should have seen a retarded increase in wages, benifits, and standard of living, but we havent. Not even the hard workers are being rewarded.

Not to mention that americans are actually working longer hours for fewer benifits and taking fewer vacation days.

So no, its not because americans have all gotten lazier, its because profits are not being shared like they used to.

Back when profits were translated into promotions, expansion (hiring more employees) raises, and better benufits.

Today it results in hiring 400 chinese workers for the price of 50 american workers, and a big giant bonus for the executives to pocket.