He actually says that working on the pier was actually worse than a wrestling match. When you watch the movie you can see right from the start that James' wife, Mae, is very against the idea of ​​her husband fighting, but she knows that it's something she has to do because there aren't many other options on how to get James' money. that they need. their family. The film shows how there were people who were in even worse situations than James and his family, such as those living in Hooverville. Those "slums" were more horrible than the places where others lived. Those were the people who suffered the worst consequences of the Great Depression. The film also shows how the rich live and how they are not as affected by the Great Depression than the poor. It showed their accommodation in very nice apartments. Those people prevailed considering how others were so badly affected by the Great Depression. James eventually turned to some of those people for help with money because he was desperate. He did everything he could to help his people