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Even with a mature space program, without superscience shipping people to space would be incredibly expensive, and maintaining them there would also be incredibly expensive, so there's a huge incentive to automate as much as possible, and to only send the best when you must have someone in space. Meanwhile, the people most affected by high unemployment rates are those working low-skill jobs, which are not the elites you'd be sending to space.
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I am discussing economic reality. Deregulation of the financial sector allowed for asset bubbles to form in the 1990s and 2000s, leading the a recession that was almost as bad as the Great Depression. Regressive tax cuts throughout the world have contributed to increased governmental debt and economic inequality. Health care costs in the USA are over 20% of GDP, which is a proportion unsustainable for any sector of the economy, and the USA pays twice as much as any other developed nation for worse outcomes.
These were all avoidable and were avoided in the ATL because of better leadership in both the Republican and Democratic Parties. Without the Reagan revolution, the Northern moderates of the Republican Party retained sufficient power to moderate their party's platform, allowing for a fiscally conservative Republican Party to kept in check the more extreme spending of the Democratic Party. With the fiscal restraint of the Republican Party combined with the vision of the Democratic Party, the ATL ended up with a stronger and better America where partisan extremists on both sides are consider too crass to be given power. It is a return to the technocratic government of the New Deal. |
06-18-2019, 09:41 AM | #73 |
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That very statement is an ideological assertion. In fact, it shows not only that your campaign is pushing a specific ideological viewpoint, but that you cannot even consider the suggestion that there are other viewpoints. That's an even bigger warning sign.
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Because shipping large numbers of people into space with the resulting need to ship large amounts of air, water and plants is madness, even with an improved boost technology. At the same time however they simply don't have the technology to automate things all that much so we're pretty much stuck with the space opera paradigm. That's not a bad thing since space opera remains the best mode for gaming in space. Unfortunately good space opera requires a a threat and none exists.
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I must note, by the way, that setting partisan attachments aside, the takeoff point seems to be "revive the agenda of the New Frontier." But what was that agenda? Space travel and technological advance, yes. But also opposition to communism: "Watchmen on the walls of world freedom." And also revitalizing the economy with tax cuts.
But there actually was a president who had all that, and who was even a charismatic Irishman. His presidency virtually was a revival of the New Frontier. Ronald Reagan's program may have been closer to John Kennedy's than Edward Kennedy's would have been, at least in the dimensions relevant to this scenario. Yet with the benefit of eight years of further technological advance, he wasn't able to turn his ideas about going into space into a reality. That makes the idea that Edward Kennedy could have done it in 1972 seem even more optimistic.
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The problem with space's "nature" is that it's kind of boring because it's so hostile. There's one scenario: "Oh no, something has gone wrong with our life support. We should really fix that."
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I suppose the scenario assumes some economic moves that would counter or prevent the stagflation of the 1970s. What those would be I have no idea.
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