Jaune:"Hey Weiss, if I gave you robots potentially capable of literally manufacturing dust out of thin air and eventually rendering it utterly irrelevant in the face of a post-scarcity society, do you think, like, you could make something out of that with the company? Maybe? I dunno what corperations are like."
That said, the Process is still a growing thing, just like any other organism. We can't just use it as a cure-all. It's an amazing tool to solve a lot of problems, but we should be careful and steady about it so that we don't end up taking it for granted.
I question why you think unstoppable massive robot hordes can't be solved by opposing unstoppable massive robot hordes.
Dust extraction is something we can do within days if we could do it openly, a couple weeks at max. The issue there is that we'd need a dust mine of our own and we wouldn't be able to easily keep it hidden.I am not quite sure anyone understands that that is all late-game tech, but when has that ever stopped people from fantasizing?
Sure it's not going to be solved tomorrow, but in the span of a few years a fair portion of the world should be converted.
Okay, crazy idea! We get the White Fang doing this too!I am not quite sure anyone understands that that is all late-game tech, but when has that ever stopped people from fantasizing?
Because she flat out can't. She's at risk of losing the company inhereitance to effect said meaningful change if she acts too early, and to insist she can fix it given time is to wrongfully ignore the thousands this choice will affect in the intervening years.
That's a fucking cop out. She fully well knows it's wrong for all that she has difficulty accepting it. But this erroneous assumption she can stop the camps is wishful thinking. You could kill Jacques, and every single bigot in the SDC in an effort to stop this. And you know what you'd get? The next biggest competitor lining up to fill the vacuum because the government and the military want that dust pronto and obviously don't necessarily care about the circumstances in which they get it. It'd likely be worse as inefficiencies and lack of infrastructural experience and expertise leading them to scale up the camps in an effort to make up the losses. There's a reason businesses so easily skew towards amorality, and it's not as simple as all rich businesspeople are terrible individuals- it's because that's where the advantages in the competitions every company is in lie. Weiss isn't an idiot or a sociopath denying indentured servitude is slavery with nicer labels. She's simply acknowledging a mess decades in the making has no trivial solution.
yes, because that's going to be a simple and trivial shift. That's the sort of shift that inadvertently topples the 4 kingdoms as governments. Why pay taxes if national services are outcompeted the Process? Monopoly on force? That's not something Vale or Atlas have anymore- it belongs to some kid named Jaune Arc. I'm a technophile who believes science and advancement can treat a lot of societal ills as much as the next guy but waving hands and casting 'post-scarcity' like it's a spell won't be super effective.
No, the solution is to realize that debtor internment is a piece of barbarism best consigned to the dustbin of history, then change the laws to something sensible that includes private bankruptcy and protections for personal freedom.
And to put it frankly, solving that problem is trivial. At that level of automation you just give everyone a universal basic income and that's it. Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism, basically, at least as soon as we figure out space travel.
Firstly, a society which cannot survive without slavery is a society that doesn't deserve to survive. I have zero sympathy. The morally right thing is to remove the debtor system anyway and let things play out.
The SDC needs Faunus for mining Dust because they last longer than vanilla humans, given that slavery is illegal, the debt-prisoner system is their way of keeping workers doing mining in dangerous conditions for shitty pay though the last bit is partly Jacques padding his wallet. The Atlesian government turns a blind eye to it because they need the Dust and the SDC pseudo-slave labour makes it affordable even with being a breeding ground for terrorists.
