Any company could start a law business and tender for the local franchise for legal aid, to be provided by lawyers whose caseload will be so great, and whose pay so small, that doing what is right for the individual client is impossible, and justice becomes a conveyor belt from arrest to prison.
Of course, with his ambition, he tweaked the format and set up his own properties, X Factor and Got Talent; they became the conveyor belts to his movie ambitions.
The conveyor belt, as Karan calls it, will now take him on a further nine-year journey to reach the seniority of Nick Sargant; a journey that's already seen him upping sticks and moving across the country, and will probably see that happen again.
"From your first day in med school, you step on to a conveyor belt," Karan says.
University is a rich and random conveyor belt of meet-and-greets, and the potential LFs enter and exit at steady intervals throughout.
They were trying, as they do, to squeeze me into these wee boxes and stick me on the conveyor belt as just another actor.
Many take breaks from the training conveyor belt to contribute to healthcare in less direct ways, such as by undertaking research or taking postgraduate qualifications.
We sat there and we believed in the 1980s that we were on an easy conveyor belt, which was always moving towards a more leftwing, more socialist and social justice-based agenda.
It's famed for takoyaki (battered octopus balls), okonomiyaki (savoury pancakes), udon noodles, oshizushi (pressed sushi), and as the birthplace of conveyor belt sushi.
This conveyor belt can't stop.
In one giant building, known as the "matrix", packages zoom around on 300 miles of conveyor belts.
