You wake up
No idea who you or where you are
Screaming and fighting
You figure out and are helped to operate the door
You go through more doors and hoops and take on more risks, get more specialized, and become more invested in the things staying a certain way
And from time to time you look out the windows and see other trains going the same way - some are clean, others are filled with people, some fighting, and others are grimly quiet
Every so often the train your on changes the conductors and the engineers and rules are changed about who gets to sit where and how much money everyone gets to keep
Most people can't or won't switch trains. Instead they buy things that help them pretend they are someone or somewhere else. Some of these things kill or melt them.
After a long while you realize you have never seen where the train is going and that almost no one on the train is interested
The problem is no one is going get rich, powerful or famous from changing the way the train works.
That's why people build trains - because the cant stay on the one they are on. Because they want to get away from the old engineers or conductors.
But there aren't any new places to build trains left and you don't want to build a new train where the old engineers and conductors can take it.
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