Chương 203: Always, onwards

Talking about Ivo made Davi forlorn. His vivacity, and strong will, bordering on stubbornness, were his most pronounced characteristics. To see him meekly obedient, and worse, cheerful about it, was distressing.

He expected no less from the lux, all things considered. Their biggest ambition was to make them all compliant in their own exploitation and dehumanisation. But not just compliant -- grateful for it.

He saw it all the time when he went undercover: servants gloating about what 'good' families they worked for, silencing all the workers who brought up the unfair conditions of their employment. People with menial clerical, or tech jobs, grateful that they got to sit hunched at a desk for hours on end instead of working in factories or cleaning streets. 

The kind of people who would throw everyone 'beneath' them into a meat grinder if it meant they got to keep their meager privileges.