Unfair Rules and Laws on "The Giver´s" Society

On this month that I have been reading "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, it seems that the society is no longer free. I mean the elder people are the ones who decide each person´s future life; for example whoa are they marriying with, who their children are, what will be their job, etc. That doesn´t seem fair, each person should have  the freedom to chose whatever they like or want. Also there are a lot of really absurd rules, for example: kids can´t ride bicicles until age 7 or 8, each year when they get older they have to make a ritual and they are assigned to do volunteer hours. Also kids cant dream freely and have to take pills for pleasurable dreams to go off. There are many other UNFAIR laws that are followed are punished strictly if not acomplished. The point is, people are not "free", everything that will surround them (family, job) is decided by elders who think that what they do will be better for you.