Nah, it's just a place to rest or read. Reading too much into it is unhealthy for you. It's not even a particularly good place to work or listen to music (and

Nah, it's just a place to rest or read. Reading too much into it is unhealthy for you. It's not even a particularly good place to work or listen to music (and definitely not to talk), because a lot of people going there actually want silence for whatever reason. But it also usually at least half full with people who think that wearing a suit, sitting a quiet car and reading Ayn Rand will make them serious and successful. Thankfully, they mostly stay quiet in some countries. For some reason here (Netherlands) people almost don't notice that they're in one of them (even though on some trains you can even get a "conversation car," for people who want to be really noisy). Shame. Overrated or not, a quiet car is still a great idea.