2 B R 0 2 B, That is the Question

2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a very short story, set in a future world that I'll call "dystopian utopia." Vonnegut sets the stage succinctly:

Everything was perfectly swell. There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars. All diseases were conquered. So was old age. Death, barring accidents, was an adventure for volunteers.

Sounds utopian, right? But there is, of course, a catch. Do yourself a favor and spend twenty minutes reading this story, and think about what makes some lives more valuable than others, and how we make the same kinds of decisions today, just in more subtle ways, on more macroscopic levels.