Take it or leave it. I ain’t in business for my health. I’m here a-sellin’ tires. I ain’t givin’ ’em away. I can’t help what happens to you. I got to think what happens to me.
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 12. Exploitation, greed and selfishness are on full display in this tire salesman’s take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum to a poor migrant family in need of a new tire.