Basically, people in North Korea do not have the freedom to choose their occupations. Once you’re assigned a job from the government, it is your lifelong job.
Talk about killing everyone's dreams and aspirations
In a way this sounds similar to arranged marriages. People never expected to have a choice. They just get what they get and make the most of it, and a lot of them are very happy, long-lasting marriages.
I agree. Western culture encourages individualism and passions, but the people in North Korea are probably blocked from any kind of influence besides their own. From a young age, the people of North Korea are conditioned to follow orders just to survive.
Talk about killing everyone's dreams and aspirations
That's assuming they ever had the ability to dream and hope. Beat a man long and hard enough and he'll simply exist, not live.
Though this does remind me of Futurama.
In a way this sounds similar to arranged marriages. People never expected to have a choice. They just get what they get and make the most of it, and a lot of them are very happy, long-lasting marriages.
I agree. Western culture encourages individualism and passions, but the people in North Korea are probably blocked from any kind of influence besides their own. From a young age, the people of North Korea are conditioned to follow orders just to survive.
This makes sense. I forgot that they never actually had any freedoms to begin with.