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I don't think it'd be the folks living in a paradise. It'd be the folks fleeing persecution or economic horror. Why'd folks leave Europe for the New World, or a
by textminer 13y ago
I don't think it'd be the folks living in a paradise. It'd be the folks fleeing persecution or economic horror. Why'd folks leave Europe for the New World, or any other migration? (And I mean the early ones-- not the gold rush-thinkin' ones.)
- ubernostrum 13y agoWalter Miller's "Crucifixus Etiam" is a rather good story about this; essentially terraforming Mars as the new frontier for migrant labor, with all the harshness that comes from those types of frontiers (including the fact that it is, largely, a one-way trip for the laborers, since their lungs atrophy due to the special breathing equipment they're attached to).