“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was
worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and
entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class
system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as
bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that
praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting
paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been
passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to
the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in
the noonday sun.” Kurt Vonnegut,
