Oh, I'm sorry, if you think that doing perfectly mundane work for a few months with several hundred other people helping you is more difficult than all of this Wizard Bullshit they put me through then by all means tell me how "little" work I did when I was the only person in the entire company who could even make the attempt. And they made me personally pay for everything.

And I note that at no time did THEY have to deal with legal work involving the very lawyers of hell. I had to persue multiple legal cases with and/or against Hell, the ground, the Bazaar, and the city of London for their sakes. I was held personally liable for THEIR actions by both London and the ground. I had to mediate between the two because of THEIR city. Their city which was payed for entirely by me, built entirely by me, negotiated for entirely by me, planned entirely by me, and legally represented mostly by me (Hell helped but the union sure didn't). The city is even made of me. The city which they demanded I build them as they held completion of the railroad hostage until I did.

The work that I did was not lesser just because it was everything except unskilled physical labor. If anything I did MORE work than any other individual in the union except Furnace. That 10% was 90% of all the mind bending eldritch work involved. Furnace and Cornelius did the other 10%. The union mostly just had to deal with the completely normal and unmagical stuff. They didn't even have to deal with legal at all. I'm convinced that the single most dangerous thing they had to contend with was frostbite. That's pretty dangerous but it doesn't compare to making sure that a space crab doesn't liquify us all.

I really liked the railroad content of the game as a player because the lore was cool and each station had loads of cool stuff as well that I also enjoyed but I don't find the union even slightly likable in-universe. I sympathise with Cornelius and Furnace but I wouldn't want to have to deal with either of them in real life either. At least Furnace was trying to be fair until we got to the city. Not a word of thanks for saving her continued existence. She made it clear from page one that at no time did she actually want to do that and what do I get from her? Mockery that I've never done any "real" work in my life and that I shouldn't expect any respect from the residents of the city. That might have been a joke but it isn't very funny. It might not have been a joke.