The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Highlight

Steinbeck in the opening chapters of his masterwork, The Grapes of Wrath, which describes the dustbowl farmers who are thrown out of their Oklahoma homes during the Great Depression and then head west to California. The families are forced off the land that they have tended for generations. They plaintively argue their case to the bank agents sent to impress upon them the facts of their helplessness.