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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
One big reason is because Marxism is theoretically oriented toward giving the workers an equal share in the bounty produced by the industrial revolution. Centrum would reject that out of hand. The lowest levels of workers in Centrum society deserve nothing except the minimum to keep them functionally productive. The Level 1s are kept in line by knowing that if they work hard enough they'll eventually make it to Level 2 and level 3. And an ideology that extols revolution is anathema to Centrum.
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Can they really make it to level 2 and 3? The book is kept pretty vague on the exact workings of Centrum, but if this functions anything like a capitalist organizational structure then it's inherently a pyramid with inevitable choke points necessitating some workers being denied promotions. If McCentrums has one Level 2 manager for every 5 level 1 underlings and they service 100 citizens that means 20 people need to be born before it justifies promoting more then one person to level 2 regardless of how hard they work.