I agree that BNW's society is trying hard to be stable, like suppressing inventions that would give the lower castes to much free time. Our world has still pro

I agree that BNW's society is trying hard to be stable, like suppressing inventions that would give the lower castes to much free time. Our world has still problems that need to be solved and we are far from achieving a stable state. But in BNW, humanity has done that and now they (meaning most of humanity) want to keep that as they are happy with the status quo. In our world, just "consuming" instead of "creating" might be frowned upon but in BNW, is there really a need to create? Those who want, are allowed to, outside of the main society. It's not the kind of future society I would want to live in (no space travel, booo!) but if I'd have to choose a dystopia, BNW would probably be it.