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Re:Quitting the Rat Race by borski on Monday January 16, 2023 @07:45PM (#34407697)
I mean, he did call them rats, which isn’t that far off.
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Re:Quitting the Rat Race by throwaway_au_1 on Monday January 16, 2023 @08:12PM (#34407912)
I'm not so sure that the meaning behind The Rat Race is that a human being participating in a rat race is a rat.
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Re:Quitting the Rat Race by borski on Monday January 16, 2023 @08:16PM (#34407952)
> Around the 30 second mark is a scene where the protaganist rat is waiting for a train to arrive at a packed platform. I recently had a sobering realisation while standing waiting at the platform for the Waterloo & City Line: this had become my life.

He calls himself, and by implication those around him, rats in the rat race. Whether you agree with him or not, the clear implication is a negative one.

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