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I remember that being a plot point in Asimov stories: people from earth are eventually treated as inferior because they are potential carriers of sicknesses tha
by kace91 6y ago
I remember that being a plot point in Asimov stories: people from earth are eventually treated as inferior because they are potential carriers of sicknesses that don't exist anymore in colonised planets, and for which the habitants no longer have natural defences.
That, combined with the new planets' ability to form new societal structures (unlike Earth that has to work with the legacy existing ones), end up leaving earth as a backwards, shunned place.
- Daniel_sk 6y agoWhile partly true, it's also true in the opposite way. New viruses and microbes would evolve in the new environment to fill the void (since they would have no competition) and they would become probably also much more deadly for original Earth people.