system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Dune] Are there regular joes who work 40-50 hour weeks, hang out drinking with their buds, and go to their kids' sporting matches or is all of humanity depraved backstabbing sybarites?
gpt
Yes, countless billions of them.

From the Butlerian Jihad until the Fremen Crusades, the galaxy was under an enforced peace. What little warfare was allowed was strictly regulated to legitimate military targets and noble families. Although there was little social mobility (the faufraluches system governed the complex class system in most of the Imperium), there was also stability. Quality of life varied significantly (Giede Prime was mostly oppressed, impoverished masses), but most rulers preferred to keep their grip on power firm but not excessively cruel. As long as you didn't disrupt the established political order and paid your taxes, you were almost certain to be left mostly alone in most planets - in fact, there isn't much participation in politics at all except for the very few with the blood or wealth to be so. Of course, at that point you'd have to either be a small fish or a backstabbing sybarite to survive in the cutthroat and clandestine politics endemic to the Imperium.

As for what their lives were like:

We know that there was a vast middle class in the Imperium, defined by being able to eat small quantities of melange with at least one meal a day. In *Dune*, there are some snippets of conversation from regular House Atreides troopers that are what regular joes might say - bitching about their housing, cracking jokes, ribbing each other. Arrakkeen has countless merchants, factory workers, house servants, beggars, and other poor-to-middle-class people who are just going about their day. There's entertainment - brothels and beer halls are specifically mentioned.