where your children are gonna grow up depends a lot on your choices on whether you support Mars settlement or not. if you do, and you go there, i think your children will have a high chance of having to do a lot of work. construction, farming, construction again, taking care of new immigrants and children, construction again, expanding the city … seems like a lot of work to me.
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WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Imagine this! Before you was adventure, exploration, and danger. Then there was slavery, then there was our period (where there are still millions of actual slaves btw).
Then after you, if anyone survives, and we don’t all get put into an I have no mouth and I must scream scenario by our overlords, the youth after us will never know work. They will be far more functional than us, and will simply not understand working o survive. They will look down on us, senile outcasts, who get to watch “heaven” from afar.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
foo@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Personally, I sometimes ponder if this is a part of The Great Filter. We have evolved to survive under constant threats in harsh environments, so when those dangers and threats are removed we don’t know how to handle it. We start to perceive minor things as bigger problems. I wonder if this is part of what we need to learn to deal with before we can live peacefully with our neighbours and nature.
BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Interesting take on the situation. I like it.