The tenant men looked up alarmed. But what’ll happen to us? How’ll we eat?
You’ll have to get off the land. The plows’ll go through the dooryard.
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 5. Kicked off their land and needing money to life and feed their families, the evicted sharecroppers plead that they face starvation. But the ruthless landowners don’t care, telling them that the tractors and plows will go right through their home.