[tdaltonc]

My biggest Takeaway from Heinlein's Starship Troopers was that a stable society has to be very good at subverting the energies of ambitious people into prosocial activities. And the only way to do that is to make sure prosocial activities are the best way for ambitious people to get what they want. Otherwise, marginalized but ambitious people will conspire to overthrow the social order that spurned them.

This seems like a similar moral.