The title was unique enough to make me want to discover it's meaning, and while I've only read the first part I have to say it's a wonderful tale. Not the future I'd want for society and all of that, but something that could easily happen anyway. Disposable inconvenient people given a government assigned "career" to pay their way in life, and probably enough state surveillance and tracking of it's "citizens/subjects" to make running away impractical.
I look forward to reading part two today, but I just wanted to say thank you for sharing, Jackie.