Overcrowding on the NYC subways, particularly at rush hour is so bad, that--and this was back around 1999, an advocacy group wanted to put up a poster that the city ultimately banned that showed a picture of a subway car at rush hour with the caption, "If this was cattle it would be called cruelty to animals." That has always stuck with me. But IMO the real goal is to create a compliant slave population--rather like the old Biblical movies where the mass of people serve at the Pharaohs whims. This can be the only possible goal in the last analysis. And it is why I resist technology and don't have a smart phone.