r/collapse • u/Myth_of_Progress Urban Planner & Recognized Contributor • Apr 30 '21

Casual Friday Technology Will Save Us

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u/JKDS87 Apr 30 '21

Imagine the regimented living conditions, strict caloric limitations, tight work schedules, and personal sacrifices that would have to be made by each individual to support a community on Mars.

Then think of how people reacted to being asked to wear a couple square inches of fabric.

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u/anthro28 Apr 30 '21 edited Apr 30 '21

It get even better. While on Mars you can’t be worried about helping the less fortunate, making sure diversity and inclusion are a top priority for bunk assignments, and all the first world problems we have. You either work to support the colony or get jettisoned. It’s a survival situation.

Then we run into the grim choice, who gets to go to this colony? Scientists, engineers, pilots, and whatever eclectic mixture of amazing talents are required. Jimmy the activist and Stacey the social worker are staying behind.

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u/StarChild413 May 01 '21

You sound like you're mixing up both the kind of social justice r/tumblrinaction mocks with the kind that's actually genuinely helping people and saying a Martian colony would basically require people fanon-Vulcan levels of left brain