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Omg Steinbeck predicted cast rewards in Grapes of Wrath:

$5 a day. I got damn sick of creeping for my dinner—and not getting it. I got a wife and kids. We got to eat. $5 a day, and it comes every day.”

“That’s right,” the tenant said. “But for your $5 a day fifteen or twenty casters don’t get engagement at all. Nearly a hundred people have to go out and wander on channels for your $5 a day. Is that right?”

And the driver said, “Can’t think of that. Got to think of my own kids. $5 a day, and it comes every day.”

Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath is in my top-3 books, and is incredibly pertinent today with its themes of the human cost of technological upheaval, and the resiliency of the human spirit.

Interstitial chapters always hit me deep, in a way I never really understood as a kid.  Here’s the true text from the joke I made below: genius.com/John-steinbe...

It’s a book that changed me, and if you haven’t read it recently I suggest you read it now.

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Such a powerful book! The themes resonate so deeply with the challenges we face today. Thanks for sharing the link to the true text from the interstitial chapters. It's amazing how literature can shape our perspectives. Time for a re-read indeed!