Thread 512735487

I had to read "Of Mice and Men" back in junior high. The current economic conditions made me think about this book again.

In this book, Lennie and George are hired to work on a ranch. These guys are not only paid, but receive meals and a place to live. This was quite common at the time. Men would travel from place to place, working, living in bunkhouses or flop houses. The thing though is that many, like stated in the book, would piss their savings away on women and booze.

If a job like bucking barley exists today, they surely aren't going to house you or transport you or feed you. They will pay you shit and you will be forced to pay for everything on your own.

I really think the Great Depression wasn't as bad as the modern economy today. Back then, they were often poor because they were immigrants or farmers with huge families.

Now, plenty of people in today's age are missing meals but not because there are 10 family members in a house, but because rent is so high, taxes are so fucking high, and you have to foot the bill for everything (employer benefits are basically a scam; you never receive them or they are the cheapest, most useless benefits).

>>512735487 (OP)
>>512735487 (OP)
it was a White nation back then

now we have shitskin standards of living

>>512735487 (OP)
Stienbeck is the hack that bored me to death.
That's right you could see ghosts the whole time.

>>512735487 (OP)
I like air conditioning.

7 million people starved to death in the USA during the great depression.

>>512735797
I liked Steinbeck. The irony about it is that the stories he wrote, wrote about exploitation and the Great Depression, yet the problems at the time seem better than this shitty modern world.

For example, "The Pearl", is about an Indian family from Baja California that looks for pearls for a living but they find a giant one and their world changes. They don't have much, but they have food and a house (albeit primitive) and aren't wageslaves, yet they desire more...

>>512736025
yeah i bet, based on how many people 'died of covid'. how many of them actually died of other causes while they were hungry?

>>512736025
That's pretty damn hard to believe. And if that is true, what did I just say:

"they were often poor because they were immigrants or farmers with huge families."

If you look at the difference in income in an established white family and a recently migrated family from let's say, Italy, it was huge.

>>512736122
Yeah he completely ignored the jew and nigger problem and is fucking boring.

>>512736553
>fucking boring

Have you read "The Red Pony"? That was pretty interesting, but it was a different book from his usual stuff.

>>512735797
>That's right you could see ghosts the whole time.
????????

>>512736636
I was done after the pearl honestly.
I'm more of a Bukowski guy.

>>512736553
>family is starving during the great depression and just trying to survive off can of beans
Yeah, why didn't they sit around and talk about niggers and kikes 24/7?

>>512736870
I don't know why because there's your cause.

>Lennie and George are hired to work on a ranch and are not only paid, but receive meals and a place to live. This was quite common at the time. Men would travel from place to place, working, living in bunkhouses or flop houses.
The YMCA also used to offer living spaces to young men like hostels. Here in New Jersey the YMCA near me has a small building where young people can spend the night for a few dollars. I do not know if other YMCA buildings still do that.

>>512735797
nice shitpost loser

>>512735487 (OP)
You're not gonna get any of My friends, sheckel-monkey.

>>512737645
Yeah, I recently discovered that there was a shit ton of alternative housing back then for poorfags. Now, it's basically either Jewish slumlord's apartment, your car, or the homeless shelter that you won't get in because of a wait list.

Back then there was this:

"They preferred lodging and boarding houses to cages, cages to dormitories, dormitories to flops, and flops to the city's shelters. Men could act on these preferences by moving as their incomes increased."

>>512736122
It seems you feel (not think) you can read.

OP is a nigger-whore who's read 43 books in her life. I don't need to tell you that she spreads it for anyone if the price is right (it's low)...

>>512737997
Thanks pretentious faggot.

>>512736025
You spelled "gorillion" wrong.

Farms and ranches still pretty commonly pay for room and board for workers in America. It’s just that all the workers are Latin Americans.

>>512735487 (OP)
You are damn right!

>>512735487 (OP)
Interesting coincidence, just the other day I was reading a little about the Domino sugar refinery in Brooklyn and it said they had living quarters for workers in the refinery.

>>512735797
now that you can actually
you should go back and reread

>>512735487 (OP)
> If a job like bucking barley exists today, they surely aren't going to house you or transport you or feed you

This is still exactly the existence of tons of illegals. They get shipped to a farm where they get shitty food and housing in exchange for some cash that they send home or bring home when they get shipped back after growing season.

>>512738138
Yea and every bar had shitty stew and an incredibly cheap room.

Are dormitories just illegal now for some reason? Id love a tiny cheap room with no kitchen plus some daily gruel.

>>512735797
East of Eden is one of the best American novels ever written. Also, it's Steinbeck, you illiterate fuck. Makes sense as to why you wouldn't like it. Stick to Green Eggs & Ham, faggot.

Most things are getting worse. I work night shift and it sucks.

>>512741867
Didn't green eggs and ham sell more books?

When I was 18 I just read this book. I was talking a complete stranger, some lady in a wheelchair in her 30s. She was asking me about books I read. I was stoned out my mind and went on some crazy heartfelt rant about this book. She just stared at me and then said, "Wow...... you are extremely attractive. I wish I was younger. I'd love to sleep with you."

This thread just made me remember that.

>>512735487 (OP)
I plan on writing a book about "Nobody", and turning it into some sort of "uncharacter", just to mess with people's minds.

I need to find motivation to do so.

>>512743115
Was her pussy handicapped?

I preferred grapes of wrath.

Steinbeck described americans right with his quote about them being temporarily embarrassed millionaires. it's so true and makes everyone that engages in this capitalist rat race all the more pathetic.

>>512743115
are you sure it wasn't because she was in a wheelchair? it was probably a mess down there.

>>512736694
the guy who is posting is bored to death, meaning he could only make that post from beyond the grave. this is an inherent plot twist in that you are reading the writing of a dead man, ie you can see ghosts. this was the plot twist of the movie "The 6th Sense" which is what he was satirizing.

I don't think I ever read it, but rather watched the movie. Is the book better than the movie?

Anyway the book and the movie are probably feminist propaganda. If it's read in schools you know it's liberal propaganda.