This was the essence of the actual Steinbeck quote, for the record: "Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams." Steinbeck is no Marxist, but at least he was right about the "game of dreams", which indeed is more true today than ever before.

> Gotta update it for 2026 because millionaires are broke bitches.

> If you can't retire today and never work again without having to worry about money, you're part of the proletariat.

This; this is a middle-class game of dreams.