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Total Recall They simply have a machine that does "memory implants" and "memory wipes." Based on Philip K. Dick's short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale."

Slight spoiler, mostly from Wikipedia:

Douglas Quaid is a construction worker who discovers that he is actually
a secret agent formerly named Carl Hauser. He travels to Mars to
uncover his true identity and why his memory was erased. Adventures ensue.

Worse spoiler, from me:

In the end, you are left wondering which person really exists. Is the
spy Hauser only a figment of Quaid's imagination, and everything that
seemed to have happened on Mars only the result of a malfunctioning
"vacation machine," exactly like his wife and friends were telling him
at the beginning? Did Quaid reject his mundane real-life for a much
more interesting dream-life? And if so, is he really worse off? Or,
was part of the Mars adventure real, but the spy Hauser was only a
memory implanted by the bad guy into Quaid, to use Quaid to ferret out
the resistance, as the bad guy mockingly tells Quaid 3/4 into the
movie? Or, is Quaid real, and Hauser was an implanted persona to
neutralize Quaid without killing him?

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: Your idealistic young heroes kill the 20, thereby getting what's necessary to change their dystopia into a utopia (at great personal sacrifice) -- and then watch in horror as human nature takes

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: I found this interview with the president of the Young Adult Library Services (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). She mentions that there are very few male readers

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: You only have to watch Downton Abbey to realize that the 1920s were a period of rapid social upheaval in the UK. Some people clung to the old ways with a death-grip; others cast aside

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: Building on @what's answer (to his own question ;-) ), I'd say that the question is falsely assuming the protagonist will improve. Much more interesting is the case where the protagonist

: Your idealistic young heroes kill the 20, thereby getting what's necessary to change their dystopia into a utopia (at great personal sacrifice) -- and then watch in horror as human nature takes

: I found this interview with the president of the Young Adult Library Services (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). She mentions that there are very few male readers

: You only have to watch Downton Abbey to realize that the 1920s were a period of rapid social upheaval in the UK. Some people clung to the old ways with a death-grip; others cast aside

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