" The bank - or the Company - needs - wants -insists - must have - as though the bank or the Company were a monster, with thought and feeling, which had ensnared them... The banks were machines and masters all at the same time...
They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don't get it they die... It is a sad thing, but it is so. It is just so. "

― John Steinbeck , The Grapes of Wrath