"'You cannot pour upper-caste champagne-surrogate into lower-caste bottles.'" (pg. 223)
This metaphor means that a high-class person can't live the life of a low-class one. In this society, I have to agree. People are so well conditioned that anything out of their ordinary isn't okay. Their taught that this is there station in life, and that's all there is. For our culture though, I do think it's possible. For someone who's lost their job, they may not have a choice to take a job that isn't quite up to par with their previous level of work. It's necessary to make sacrifices like that to make a living. The people of this book, though, don't have to worry about losing their job because their economy is stable, and the word sacrifice isn't even in their vocabulary.
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