He was a man who had always been too busy to live, and now he was too busy to die.
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
It is not the benevolence of the employer that determines the wages of labor, but the competition among employers.