The planet of irony

[Gedan]

Clearly NT just has a "dick tax" -- if you have a dick, get taxed; they assume you've knocked up somebody at some point that deserves some kickback.

The terrible secret of space New Texas

 

[Ormael]

Luckly this tax not seems to be affecting alldick-wielding tourists. Or their pay more for visit pass or stmh like that due to been dickwielder and possible have chance...leave some memento mori on NT?

 

[Couch]

If we're going to go further down the route of considering porn logic, the economy of places like NT must be borderline pointless anyway. We have to assume they're able to sell their near limitless supply of milk and sperm well - presumably on the basis of authenticity, given they would be easy to synthesise or produce locally - and with access to tame AIs of the complexity of Gianna pretty much all jobs could easily be automated.

This should really be the case just about everywhere in the TiTS setting. Megacorps could easily consist of a small board of directors and perhaps some researchers, with everything else being AI or VI-controlled. Automation is already a burgeoning problem for low-skill labor today, and that's without general-purpose AI being available to manage the tasks we associate with requiring a human brain. There's no particular reason anyone would need Kaede to be a space trucker, for instance, when anyone of means could just own a fully-automated AI-flown transport and not have to pay anyone for it.

Hell, this already has cases where it happens. Kiro's ship is expressly described as having had most of its original crew-requiring functions replaced with automated systems, which apparently do the job just as well.

TiTS economy is capitalist and requires people for manual labor, except where it doesn't, because that's relatable to our experience and what we expect from sci-fi settings, which usually have this exact same deal going on. It doesn't particularly make sense from a logical perspective, but it's in-genre.

 

[Nonesuch]

TiTS economy is capitalist and requires people for manual labor, except where it doesn't, because that's relatable to our experience and what we expect from sci-fi settings, which usually have this exact same deal going on. It doesn't particularly make sense from a logical perspective, but it's in-genre.

Yeah, it's one of those traditional elephants in the room which just has to be uneasily avoided for the sake of a fantasy most of the audience will be able to relate to. I've kind of gotten around it with the Mass Effect pseudo-explanation, which is to say that AIs are deliberately limited so as to stop Hand So type take-overs, so organics are still required to perform many tasks and from that the capitalist system still functions. It's not particularly convincing, though.

 

[Noob Salad]

Capitalism is still in the 31st century. I don't want to be a space pirate anymore.

 

[Zavos]

Maybe the horrible secret of NT is that the rich and famous that travel there are led into knocking up locals by the Ts, only to have to look after their bastard and his/her best interests after they appear, conveniently right after they treatment up.

 

[JDeko]

Capitalism is still in the 31st century. I don't want to be a space pirate anymore.

the idea of Spess Communism is pretty depressing.

 

[General Drayfox]

Everybody only ever gets pregnant during Oprah-style giveaways, as mandated by the government.

 

[Couch]

the idea of Spess Communism is pretty depressing.

I mean, that's Star Trek, which is one of the only popular sci-fi settings that does to at least some degree address the idea that technology can change the nature of work from something necessary to survival into something done for the sake of enjoying doing it. It sometimes does so in a hamfisted way, of course, but I wouldn't exactly describe the Federation as depressing.

Within TiTS, the anatae are essentially space communists. They have some faults, to be sure, but it's hard to look at their society and look at the UGC and claim the latter is superior. I think at best you could argue each has benefits and drawbacks over the other.

 

[Draconoid]

Within TiTS, the anatae are essentially space communists. They have some faults, to be sure, but it's hard to look at their society and look at the UGC and claim the latter is superior. I think at best you could argue each has benefits and drawbacks over the other.

Good End wherein Comrade Steele donates all Steele Tech assets to the anatae coalition upon finding the final probe and joins the space proletariat when?

 

[JDeko]

Sexy Spess Holodomor

 

[Draconoid]

Fair distribution of resources is my fetish.
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