Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by throwaway_au_1 1245 days ago
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.
1 comments

> 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.