Car sales

Chapter seven is quite sad. It describes how all of these car salesmen are selling the tenant farmers really awful cars. Since the tenant farmers don’t know anything about cars, the salesmen can do anything they want to and sell at any price they want to. These salesmen are just doing nasty things to the cars before they sell them. They change the batteries with old crappy ones right before they are going to sell it. It really shows how a lot of people have become lousy crooks during this bad economic time. Some would say that it’s good business, but it’s just a dirty thing to do. They raise the prices because there is such a high demand for cars so that families can go to California. It is the smart thing to do by raising prices when demand is high for a product, but it seems that the salesmen have just crossed the line. At a certain point you have to think that they would want to be kind to their fellow man, but they are really crooked and are only worrying about making more money for themselves even if it means cheating people. This is similar to the part about the bankers but a more extreme level. They bankers weren’t being unreasonable, just doing what they are supposed to do because it’s their job. The car salesmen on the other hand are just trying to make as much cash off of this opportunity as they can. Both of these parts of the story just prove that when people are desperate they will do anything. That could mean having to be mean to people or taking advantage of them for their own benefit. Either way, it is not a pleasant thought that no one is really going to look after you if everyone is ever in a bad situation. Really the car salesmen are just deceivers trying to make a buck off of other people’s desperation.