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
Yeah I think they described the earbuds as seashells or something like that? Took me a while as a kid to figure out it wasn't literal seashells