The saddest sight of all is the automobiles parked outside the mills
and factories. The automobile stands out in my mind as the very symbol
of falsity and illusion. There they are, thousands upon thousands of
them, in such profusion that it would seem as if no man were too poor
to own one.... They don't realize that when the American worker steps
out of his shining tin chariot he delivers himself body and soul to
the most stultifying labor a man can perform.
-- Henry Miller. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945)