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"Al slipped in the low gear and let in the clutch. The truck shuddered and strained across the yard. And the second gear took hold. They crawled up the little hill, and the red dust arose about them. "Chr-ist, what a load!" said Al. "We ain't makin' no time on this trip."Ma tried to look back, but the body of the load cut off her view. She straightened her head and peered straight ahead along the dirt road. And a great weariness was in her eyes." (The Grapes of Wrath, 114)

[|Grapes of Wrath, Adapted from the John Steinbeck novel by Frank Galati]

"Moreover, whatever prefession men may embrace, and whatever species of property they may posess, one characteristic is common to them all. No one is fully contented with his present fortune- all are perpetually striving in a thousand ways to improve it. Consider any one of them at any period of life, and he will be found engaged with some new project for the purpose of increasing what he has." (De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 792)

The following figure from 1989 UNDP report (a bit old), shows the unequal distribution of world income and illustrates why 3 billion people on this planet and have no recourse to the very basic necessities of life.

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