I noticed this with Silo but also with the Hive Minds series. The top levels always house the well of people. And the further down you got, the lower the class.
But why? Shouldn’t the high classes be lower down where it is safer?
The only reason I can come up with is that due to gravity, everything falls (or flows) down to the lower level, making them harder to clean. But this is not a convincing reason at all.
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In response to @V_'s post vmac.ch/posts/202... I've read Silo, not Hive Minds so I can only answer to what I've understood from Silo. There the well-off people are able to more easily attend the cleaning and eat in the cafeteria. There is status associated with living up top because you can look at the sky through the big video screen. There is no inherent danger from the outside so further down isn't safer per se. Of course the air is dangerous but they don't live in danger every day.

@holgerfrohloff Thanks for your response. It was not clear that only the air is the issue in Silo. In Hive Minds the danger was never clearly explained so I don't know if it could be similar situation. I think my mind in such scenarios always goes to a nuclear fallout scenario. And in that case lower down would be better (I think).
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In response to @V_'s post vmac.ch/posts/202... I've read Silo, not Hive Minds so I can only answer to what I've understood from Silo. There the well-off people are able to more easily attend the cleaning and eat in the cafeteria. There is status associated with living up top because you can look at the sky through the big video screen. There is no inherent danger from the outside so further down isn't safer per se. Of course the air is dangerous but they don't live in danger every day.
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