IIRC Orson Scott Card of all people did a riff on this, but the ability to freeze yourself was theoretically merit based. So then all the best and brightest thi

IIRC Orson Scott Card of all people did a riff on this, but the ability to freeze yourself was theoretically merit based. So then all the best and brightest thinkers spent most of their time frozen, with kind of a "break-glass-in-case-of-emergency" setup.