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tasuki on June 11, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: '1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell

> Many of its central concepts such as 'soma', 'hatchery and conditioning centers', and the caste system - alphas to epsilons - don't have readily transposable equivalents in our modern day society

Ah, not yet! Give it time!

- Soma, I'm sure you can imagine

- Conditioning centers... advertisement everywhere?

- Caste system... genetic engineering for the rich

ahartmetz on June 11, 2019 | [–]

Caste system: lack of social mobility

nn3 on June 12, 2019 | [–]

North Korea has a caste system based on the family's behavior in WW2.

China is actively working on one based on the citizen score.

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