Sinclair believed that in order to ride in Packingtown, one must possess qualities of deceit and trickery. "Nobody rosin Packingtown by doing good work.... The man who told tales and spied on his fellows would rise; but the man who minded his own business and did his work, they would "speed him up" till they had worn him out, and then they would throw him into the gutter." -The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
According to the passage, the land owners goal is to make as much money as possible. It doesn't matter how it comes in, as long he gets a lot of money
"...there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar...," is saying that the workers prefer money to friends. They'll sell each other out and try to do anything to make more money, even if it hurts someone else.
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