Like I'm pretty sure the conclusion I had was "oh haha I see your point mr. Vonnegut, too much equality can indeed be a bad thing!"
And I definitely don't remember my teacher suggesting anything about it being viewable as satire of red scare paranoia either
I remember someone on reddit talking about how interesting and important of a movie it was, so I watched it. I thought it was one of the dumbest things I'd ever seen. People are dumb so they need other people to think for them wow what a cool concept bud definetly never heard that before. I took it as incredibly self indulgent libertarian nonsense