T_T

imagine a company/government branch whose entire job is running experiments to find alternatives to the current way of life, sustainable at the scale of our current population. They take a small group of volunteers and send em off to an island telling them to recreate society in whatever way they know how. They're given a problem, like the problem is economy or money. Their version of society can be identical but they have to address the shortcoming that they're assigned.

so let's say a group of 35 people are shipped off to an island and they're told to terraform the island to their need, rebuild society and address their assigned problem: Wealth Inequality...and you let the experiment run for a few generations during which there will be no contact between them and the rest of society, other than the scientists who will simply observe the attempt take place.

that would make for such an interesting plot of a dystopian story.