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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] So then no one lives in Yakima or Livermore or Tempe or Mogadishu or wherever unless they want to or it's convenient for work or whatever (although without raising the spectre of transporter rations, convenient and commute have ENTIRELY different meanings) And so everything is good and happy and let's say your production is down, they're not going to take away your house and make you move to Mississippi. I mean maybe if you steadfastly refuse to do a single thing, like not just temporarily slacking off, but actively fucking off. But a dip in the inspiration or motivation or whatever just means you don't get that Risan holiday or the massage therapist visits or holodeck sessions or whatever barter you might be wanting. It's difficult. Trying to think of how this might work without money or credits or whatever. I'm just trying to puzzle it out. It's obviously not all apartment switching. It's a question of motivation. At some point there needs to be day-to-day incentives to become better and more productive members of the society (and possibly punishments for non-contributors.) Otherwise what's to keep people from just fucking-off and replicating fudge sundays, and getting off with holo-pron all day? I mean aside from an over-arching desire for achievement and advancement ingrained in every child's mind since birth and the profound disapproval of your peers. Could it be as simple as that? Who gets to decide where you live? A housing authority? What keeps them from asigning themselves and their family all the really nice mansions while everyone else gets the crap places? Who gets to decide what clothes you'll have? Which shuttlecraft you'll own? Which movies get made, and which ones don't? Which houses to build? What technology? Restaurants? Concerts? How do they quantify demand? How do they determine what to supply (and to whom)? What makes me get out of bed every morning, even when it's going to be really fucking hot and even though my very hot mate (non-gender specific) has just purchased new and sexy underthings? What makes me get up and go to work, to serve, to bring food to the tables at the restaurant, or to program the robots that wash the windows at the Academy or to fix the transporter? Why would I go do that? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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