Fair point - I think I last read it in about 2010, I just resonated so well with the time - The banks screwing the poor, people being forced to leave their homes, having to move away from their loved ones to survive - 75 years on and that's where we're at....
"The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size." Steinbeck writing about banks, capitalism and the hurt they do to the poor, Grapes of Wrath - 1939!! Always struck me as...