What made the story so captivating for me is how dystopian yet extremely close to present day reality it is.

Of course that’s what he does: takes already existing situations and weaves them into something eye-opening.

That’s horrible.

One more time I’m reminded of Unlicensed Bread (C. Doctorow).

BTW the title made me think of car parts. Bosch sell all sorts of stuff.

Interesting. Wikipedia says:

Hypergamy (colloquially referred to as “dating up” or “marrying up”) is a term used in social science for the act or practice of a person dating or marrying a spouse of higher social status than themselves.

The antonym “hypogamy” refers to the inverse: marrying a person of lower social class or status (colloquially “marrying down”). Both terms were invented in the Indian subcontinent in the 19th century while translating classical Hindu law books, which used the Sanskrit terms anuloma and pratiloma, respectively, for the two concepts.

Sometimes I think there’s cause and effect at work (in either direction) but really they’re the same picture.