Too Long; Didn't Read
There might be a spaceport and a spaceplane sitting on the runway, but there was no future here. There was no upward mobility here, at least not through a meritocracy. The rules inside these metal beasts seemed so arbitrary. Jackson understood WHY the corporations wanted their employees to have them. He felt like such a failure after his father had put so much money into his tuition. He could not afford to pay for his father’s weight weight and felt the only son failed to properly provide.