A story without conflict, where everything goes well wouldn’t be a very interesting story though. So there’s a bit of a survivorship bias there.
reply> story without conflict, where everything goes well
replyAmerica has been lurching from crisis to crisis since Nixon, so it isn’t a surprise that our fiction highlights interpersonal drama. That shouldn’t lead us to conclude that it’s necessary, however. Stories about a team working together against the environment (often portrayed as gods and monsters) are as old as storytelling itself.
> as an extreme measure the wealthy are able to take, or desperate indentured servants are shipped off to work.
replyThis is the part I don't think people appreciate: space sucks. It's horrible. There is not a chance that the rich decide that they'd do that rather than lounge on a yacht. The working class goes first into the mines.
At least it's soundproof though. There's nothing worse than having to hear your neighbors bicker.
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