Solarpunk technology

“The kids were each given small rations of food and water, and they were allowed—indeed encouraged— to fight over them. (…) Near the end of the first week the boys were divided into two groups and told to attack each other. (…) Every few years, one of the kids would die.”

The heck is this cliche straight out of anime and games. Even those have the sensibility to not portray something like this as a positive.