“I don’t get your morality, Uncle Herman. You don’t want me to be a thief but it’s okay with you if I work for a thief.” “Steinheim’s not a thief. Steinheim’s a builder. What he’s doing is what they do,” my father said, “what they all have to do because the building trade is a cutthroat business. But his buildings don’t fall down, do they? Does he break the law, Alvin? Does he?” “No, he just screws the workingman every chance he gets.
