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Comment by pixl97

19 days ago

I mean technically I'm a millionaire because I own a house. This said the scale from the time the quote was written till now would mean I need like 20 million +

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ThrowawayR2  18 days ago

I feel fairly confident in asserting without bothering to check that there are proportionally more $20-millionaires in the United States than there were in Steinbeck's time as well so Steinbeck is still on the wrong side of history. While capitalism certainly needs to be regulated to curb its worst excesses, far more than it is now, it's abundantly clear that it has outperformed the alternatives.