"Ferengi workers don't want to stop the exploitation, we want to find a way to become the exploiters."

--Rom, DS9

Because people only vote based on how it will directly impact their bank accounts, not as though values like freedom and independence are deeply imbedded into our society.

I'm embarrassed that people put so much stock in a gloss of Steinbeck. The original text that is paraphrased to produce this ``quotation'' says something completely different than what people ascribe to it.

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#Disputed