Well obviously, change is constant. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme. Look at the shape of the story. The people on top support rules that completely

Well obviously, change is constant. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme. Look at the shape of the story. The people on top support rules that completely coincidentally help keep them on top. It's a universal impluse. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." (Upton Sinclair) is another example with a similar shape, but at the scale of individuals. John Rawls had the right idea.