Ryan_m_b said:
Obviously I exaggerate for effect but it is a really interesting point because it has really important implications for the socioeconomic models that the society will adopt. As a very simple example a society with too much personal freedom might leave itself open to accidental self destruction (think tragedy of the commons), too little freedom might create escalating social tension ending in bloody revolution.
I'd consider as more natural solutions curbed personal freedoms. As long as a only few people are seriously p**** off:
Do they break law in any way?
NO - no problem, thank you citizen for raising awareness about this problem. It will be discussed in the future and we would be grateful if you help making a draft of new law that would mitigate it... READ: Good luck, your idea would be either silently drowned in a subcomission or officially killed in the parliament ;)
YES - well that's merely (or at least can officially claim) a problem of selfishness (like tax evasion), mental problems (like psychopathology) or lack of knowledge and responsible behaviour. Would be dealt accordingly by tax authorities, health care system, education authorities or police pending on its nature.
Relatively small group while there are no weapons among general public that would also be solvable. As if left wing riots that are in Germany every first May or regular strikes on French universities were about to change anything...
Just have riot police prepared, don't overreact to avoid loosing general support and problem would be solved.
However, there's a place where a see a potential explosion that couldn't be solved easily. At first there would be taken people generally without children. Then, there would be at first a few years of food rationing. So either people deliberately would have no children, or in really bad scenario some women would not have menstruation cycle anyway. Then, the conditions would improve, official policy would be encouraging having children... And we end up round 2 decades later with a baby boom which would not accept hardships and sacrifices as politely as their parents did.
Solutions:
- High quality education with proper amount of indoctrination
- Official policies (including both tax structure and provided free services) encouraging early marriage and having children (yes, officially lack of people, unofficially married males are not so hard working revolutionaries)
- Long compulsory education (talents are needed) and proper care for school dropouts (read: sending them compulsory a few islands away for let's call it vocational training for a physical job)
- Leaving recreational drugs legal but purchased only in limited amount and at high price from state monopoly (yes, "circuses" part of "bread and circuses")
- Poorly paid public works offering everyone a job (it disarms people who complain that there is no work)
- Keeping low corruption and more or less reasonable policies to avoid making gov an easy target
- Having a few parties that change from time time that have roughly the same policies but place slightly different accents among policies and can be no complain that there is a dictatorship
- Keeping high level of surveillance to reduce crime (mild punishment to show how humanitarian the gov is, and after a few wrist slaps most of people would learn anyway)
Do you consider that as workable?
Nimbian said:
In a Colony situation, certain things will be majorly scaled down.
EX. there is no need to make 1 million phones a year for a population of 1 million, likely only a few thousand a year to make replacements and for the colonist's children. It would likely be made of identical or nearly identical design.
Actually if you produce 5000/year and have 1 000 000 users, even if there is no population increase you get that an average phone has to survive for 200 years...
No, the phones that I had couldn't do that ;)
So... maybe 100 000 a year, it has to survive for 10 years and has a battery that was replaced in the meantime at least once or maybe even twice.
With 100 000 a year you get 384 daily (for 5 day work week, no other holidays or 274 for work every day) Too much to produce in a tiny workshop but rather small amount for purpose of serial production.
Solutions (except of mentioned one standard model)? The electronics inside also serves as transmitter for wireless internet, with longer antenna for mobile stations or any electronic device that replaces radio or TV? The factory produces electronics for mobiles only for one month every year, then recalibrates tools and produces somethin else?