Great story, man!
An amazing walk through dystopia.
This phrase made me remember a classic text i worked on in college:
"desire was the root of suffering" (radix malorum est cupitas), which is Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale refers to love for money, ambition or greed.

We certainly have to be careful what we wish for and we must preserve some of what makes us distinct; homogenization, as it has been proven in authoritarian regimes, is the death of humanity.