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Fiction

Caste System (Alpha to Epsilon)

A system that sorts human beings into five castes before birth, fixing even their intelligence and their role. So that none will feel discontent, each is tuned to a happiness that is “just right.”

Source

Brave New World Aldous Huxley / 1932

A future society in which human beings are manufactured and managed in factories. People are assigned a caste before birth, their unease dissolved by the drug soma, content within a happiness handed to them. A world that has traded away freedom for stability.