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Originally Posted by orion
But...even in tribal societies, stronger people are also in power. Here they are docile without any real reason to get the power as they could overrun those weaklings but aren't doing so.
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I think the added issue of everyone else dying so early comes into play. All the Marked are so young, are barely knowledgeable, trained, or experienced. They will have only elementary level education, because by the time they are junior high age, they are actually in the middle of their life, and so they are suddenly thrust into careers like our MC. By the time they would have built up enough knowledge and experience to have the power to even think to challenge the social order, they are pretty much at the end of their life and/or dead!
Think of even the people of tribes or during the feudal times, they would have been pretty much full adults in terms of their mentality and ability by the time they were in their late teens. But even that's already really to late for a people that only life into their twenties and perhaps 30s. AND even part of that's taken away for you as the MC says that their bodies basically start shutting down to a debilitating degree some time prior to that early death.
Put all that together, and while it's still a bad and horrible system that will only fall upon itself, it still makes sense that it happened. You know the old adage, "knowledge is power"? Well, in this society, the Unmarked have lived way longer than any Marked, and have the knowledge and experience that gives them. They have all the power here. They also have all the information that the Marked don't have. By the time anyone would have enough power, and the mentality psychologically, to even challenge what they have been taught all their lives (someone like Ouni), they're already at the end of their life, with barely much time left.
Also...here's another problem. Reproduction. At the rate people are dying, with 90% being Marked, and that we don't see a bunch of pregnant teens on this ship, their population is not going to last. They'll eventually all die out, especially since they are going to lose a certain percentage just from sickness, accidents, etc.