epicenter00
SOC-13
There's always not-so-chemical slavery options as well.
Have and Have-Not is inherent to human nature. It cannot be eliminated. Even people who want everyone to be equal in reality want themselves and their families to be a little more equal than everyone else. Provided that exists, there'll always be some form of slavery, somewhere.
Like for instance, I would think slavery would be very common in the Regency in TNE of all places. After the Virus, the Regency gets rid of most of its domestic robots as a backlash against robotic things. Overnight, the economy of the Regency starts resembling that of like the early 1900s UK: I once read that like upwards of 60% of the population were employed as domestic servants in some capacity or another. If you assume that most high TL societies tend to have smaller populations (in some cases, even negative population growth), that workforce has to come from somewhere...
You would probably have the age old desire of people from lower TL worlds who want to flock to the higher TL worlds where life is percieved as better. These people have to eat and work and find somewhere to live. If the higher TL world sets up immigration quotas or bans immigration, you have the classic situation of "snakeheads" or "coyotes" bringing in illegals, who have to pay some exorbrant (and ever-increasing) sum to pay off the initial smuggling fee to the smugglers or face reprisal to their families back home.
They're illegally on the high TL world, so it's not exactly like they can go to the local authorities to complain. Indeed, local high TL worlds probably have various reactionary anti-immigrant groups, many of whom are not much better than the thugs who keep them in chains. Caught in the middle from a desire to "succeed," they're in a slavery situation. They can't complain to anyone or escape being thrown into prostitution, working as domestics, forced to make ⌧o movies, or whatever vices their smugglers want them to do.
Have and Have-Not is inherent to human nature. It cannot be eliminated. Even people who want everyone to be equal in reality want themselves and their families to be a little more equal than everyone else. Provided that exists, there'll always be some form of slavery, somewhere.
Like for instance, I would think slavery would be very common in the Regency in TNE of all places. After the Virus, the Regency gets rid of most of its domestic robots as a backlash against robotic things. Overnight, the economy of the Regency starts resembling that of like the early 1900s UK: I once read that like upwards of 60% of the population were employed as domestic servants in some capacity or another. If you assume that most high TL societies tend to have smaller populations (in some cases, even negative population growth), that workforce has to come from somewhere...
You would probably have the age old desire of people from lower TL worlds who want to flock to the higher TL worlds where life is percieved as better. These people have to eat and work and find somewhere to live. If the higher TL world sets up immigration quotas or bans immigration, you have the classic situation of "snakeheads" or "coyotes" bringing in illegals, who have to pay some exorbrant (and ever-increasing) sum to pay off the initial smuggling fee to the smugglers or face reprisal to their families back home.
They're illegally on the high TL world, so it's not exactly like they can go to the local authorities to complain. Indeed, local high TL worlds probably have various reactionary anti-immigrant groups, many of whom are not much better than the thugs who keep them in chains. Caught in the middle from a desire to "succeed," they're in a slavery situation. They can't complain to anyone or escape being thrown into prostitution, working as domestics, forced to make ⌧o movies, or whatever vices their smugglers want them to do.
