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BioShock 2 revealed that Andrew Ryan had a secret prison to throw people into when they disrupted his control over the city. And more than once he decided he would burn it all down rather than let someone else win.
It may have masqueraded as anarchy, but the system was still rigged from the start. There was always a ruler.
And this, intentionally or not, is the real message. There's no such thing as a real meritocracy, the system is always rigged in favor of the people who created it.
That's fair, and to add onto that Ryan did have a self destruct button in his office that would wipe out the whole city.
On the other hand, though, Fontaine and Lamb both rose to power despite Ryan's head start on authoritarianism.