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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 436609" data-attributes="member: 6533"><p><strong>Choice and Human Living</strong></p><p></p><p>Your point about people living in some pretty awful conditions is taken.</p><p></p><p>Even in these circumstances, however, choice is an important factor in the development of a city. Even a city like Early Modern London with its horrendous conditions is a choice against living out in the country where there were no possibilities of jobs and people who were similarly disenfranchised didn't exist in high enough concentrations to make the horrible compromise toward existence that is a slum something that the local authorities were willing to put up with.</p><p></p><p>And even in cases of already horrific conditions, people will still flee a situation that actively threatens them. Refugees are a fact of human existence. Anyone who has the slightest variable of choice is going to want to move out of the effective 'drain to death' range of a nexus tower.</p><p></p><p>As I think about the effects of this reverse sort of anti-hydraulic dictatorship are simply mind-boggling. Nearest comparison I can think of for a morally invested technology are the affects and significance inherent in a nuclear bomb.</p><p></p><p>Democracies would go into crisis trying to discover how to regulate control over these things, and if it really is a nexus tower competition between nations the strategic/political problems involved are devious beyond measure. I mean as a democracy do you try to get everyone under the towers so that everyone sacrafices equally or does the thought of that much state control make you so crazy that you move everyone away from the towers except for members of a special branch of the military, The martyr marines, and try to discover ways to change them so they give up the juice more effectively.</p><p></p><p>I can easily picture this system working for the Aztecs. Every few years they go on another flower war and create a sacrifice population for thier divine nexus towers.</p><p></p><p>A very potent and very uniquely magical affect on a society.</p><p></p><p>At least you would know there is one job a machine couldn't put you out of.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dr. Strangemonkey, post: 436609, member: 6533"] [b]Choice and Human Living[/b] Your point about people living in some pretty awful conditions is taken. Even in these circumstances, however, choice is an important factor in the development of a city. Even a city like Early Modern London with its horrendous conditions is a choice against living out in the country where there were no possibilities of jobs and people who were similarly disenfranchised didn't exist in high enough concentrations to make the horrible compromise toward existence that is a slum something that the local authorities were willing to put up with. And even in cases of already horrific conditions, people will still flee a situation that actively threatens them. Refugees are a fact of human existence. Anyone who has the slightest variable of choice is going to want to move out of the effective 'drain to death' range of a nexus tower. As I think about the effects of this reverse sort of anti-hydraulic dictatorship are simply mind-boggling. Nearest comparison I can think of for a morally invested technology are the affects and significance inherent in a nuclear bomb. Democracies would go into crisis trying to discover how to regulate control over these things, and if it really is a nexus tower competition between nations the strategic/political problems involved are devious beyond measure. I mean as a democracy do you try to get everyone under the towers so that everyone sacrafices equally or does the thought of that much state control make you so crazy that you move everyone away from the towers except for members of a special branch of the military, The martyr marines, and try to discover ways to change them so they give up the juice more effectively. I can easily picture this system working for the Aztecs. Every few years they go on another flower war and create a sacrifice population for thier divine nexus towers. A very potent and very uniquely magical affect on a society. At least you would know there is one job a machine couldn't put you out of. [/QUOTE]
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