Clearly targeted at a certain class of Westerner (both men & women), I enjoyed the story and thought it was quite clever. Is the world depicted in the story an

Clearly targeted at a certain class of Westerner (both men & women), I enjoyed the story and thought it was quite clever. Is the world depicted in the story any more absurd and implausible than the world we already experience? Is the system in the story all that different from systems we encounter in our lives? Perhaps a bit more explicit, but not really that different. Just a small tweak that makes things normally taken for granted feel alien and uncomfortable, great art!