To me his work speaks to the fact that every moment of your life is either spend in accordance to your own purpose or in service of someone else's purpose.

Like how each action to act as a part of a greater whole is a theft from some unrealized personal future.

Every mundane choice to be a part of something eats away at their individuality and how each of those tiny choices shapes remorse and longing for a future they chose to ignore.

This sentiment is like the entire point of What Remains of the Day. He tries to be cute at the end say Stevens tries to live with this knowledge but turns around and remains in his job to a different employer. lmao