A more perfect humanity through technology

with gender inequality, racism, caste systems etc - you can't work your up from male to female or one caste to another, whereas the score allowed people to work

Hindu and Indian, Japanese, baekjeong in Korea, kahunas of Hawaii

The movement of an individual up the class hierarchy. Achieved through education, marriage, career, or financial success

If you are scored, if you work hard and live according to the rules of fitness, you can go up. If you don't, you only have yourself to blame.

kicking Deon out of their score gang, Imani felt what she said was untrue and offensive

because they believed a failure of technology lead to an increase of poverty

You couldn't work the systems (slavery, gender bias, caste systems), but you could take the system down

Low social caste in Hindu culture; performed tasks that were considered polluting- street sweeping, removal of human waste, and tanning

A system which separates the middle class, poor and rich.

standard of living went down, poverty rates went up

social position achieved solely based on personal ability and achievement