When you're a kid, you think it's the big kids who have the power.
Then you become a big kid and realise it's the adults. Then you become an adult and realise it's your boss. Then you're made a boss and you realise there's another boss above you, and another above him, and so on and so on, up and up to the secret place where true power resides. The point is, most of us, no matter how high we go, never reach that place. Power is always up ahead. It's always in the next room.
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