So in the Time Machine, the time traveler finds that humanity has diverged into two species.
One kind is made up of witless incompetents who have everything provided for them and never question it. All they do is have sex, presumably leading to a lot of babies … although the author never mentions pregnancies or children…just all the hot stupid young swinging singles.
The other half of humanity creates clothing, grows food for themselves and the worthless ones, builds equipment…basically does all the work and keeps civilization functioning. If they have machines and skillsets that must be passed on, it means that they have a working educational system. They use the first group as a food source, sure, but without them the other ones would either starve or overpopulate their ecosystem.
Purely on the basis of looks, the second group is considered a bunch of scary monsters.
I’m totally Team Morlock.
P.S. Am I crazy to think that their system makes more sense? At least there is a downside to being on welfare in their world.