Your world sounds somewhat like ours, a hundred, two hundred years ago. We've made a lot of strides in social and economic mobility.
My family are not rich, at all. They're butchers. But I was able to go to higher education, I chose to become a lawyer. The system still has flaws that need fixing and are being worked on, but there are choices, there are personal freedoms.
I understand what you're saying, but for me, it seems a false dichotomy. There are other options than abject poverty and economic disparity or conformity in a system where everyone is treated 'equal' with all decisions of any import removed from the person.
Which, yeah, is not what you're saying, but it's how it sort of comes across.
Re: Consent issues, eugenics
My family are not rich, at all. They're butchers. But I was able to go to higher education, I chose to become a lawyer. The system still has flaws that need fixing and are being worked on, but there are choices, there are personal freedoms.
I understand what you're saying, but for me, it seems a false dichotomy. There are other options than abject poverty and economic disparity or conformity in a system where everyone is treated 'equal' with all decisions of any import removed from the person.
Which, yeah, is not what you're saying, but it's how it sort of comes across.