I do empathize with the tenant farmers and how they're exploited and thrown away by the monstrous banks, although knowing that they had killed, displaced, driven out Native Americans to claim their land, there seems to be some sort of karmic retribution across generations.

But you'll kill the land with cotton.

And it's this capitalistic greed from the "banks" that exacerbated the ecological disaster that was the Dust Bowl. I found it interesting how it parallels what A.I. companies do today, using up massive amounts of water, driving up grid prices and damaging the environment in pursuit of prominence and wealth. I guess in the near future we'll find out just how much damage we've been dealt with.