This breaks my heart a little. And, yes, I know it’s just a story, but…
In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck describes a confrontation between a tenant farmer and a tractor driver who is about to level the farmer’s home because the farmer can’t repay his bank loan. The farmer warns the driver that he will shoot him if he comes too close to the house. The driver points out that another man will be sent to knock it down even if the farmer kills him. “You’re not killing the right guy,” the driver says. The farmer asks him, “Who gave you orders?” He’s not the right guy either, the driver tells him. “He got his orders from the bank.” But, the driver adds, there’s no sense in shooting the bank’s president or its directors because they got their orders from the East. “But where does it stop?” the farmer wonders. “I don’t aim to starve to death before I kill the man that’s starving me.” “Maybe it isn’t men at all,” says the driver. “Maybe the property’s doing it.”
This is an excerpt from this article (which is a business article about capital vs. talent):
http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2003/07/capital-versus-talent/ar/1
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