"He’ll get five thousan’ there, an’ he’ll pay fifteen cents an hour. An’ you poor bastards’ll have to take it ’cause you’ll be hungry."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 20. Floyd Knowles has a go at an exploitative fruit farm contractor who wants to hire workers from the migrant camp. The contractor won’t say exactly what the pay is, except "’Bout thirty cents, I guess." But Floyd warns the other migrants that when they arrive at the farm they’ll find the pay is 15 cents, and will accept it because they are hungry.