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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 7557434" data-attributes="member: 710"><p>However, I am not sure there would be an "Engineer" priesthood or a ruling class. We know from Earth already that class systems suck. They don't actually lead to competent people at the right spot. </p><p></p><p>I would expect that pretty much everyone aboard the Generation Ship would have duties to fulfill, and everyone would to read manuals and teaching materials, or view instructional videos for <em>something</em>.</p><p>And many probably have to be able to fill in multiple roles, because they need to have a good fault-tolerance. If something goes wrong and, say, and an engineering crew is blown out of a hull breach, they need people to fill in quickly. </p><p></p><p>In everyone's childhood, people would need to study a lot and make aptitude tests to figure out what jobs they are best suited to - of course, there is no absolute guarantee they can work in the job they are best suited for, because there are only so many spots for each job and all the jobs on the ship need to be filled, but they'll try to get people close. </p><p>Though it might be that people will also rotate jobs, to avoid people getting bored, and to ensure that everyone is qualified to handle multiple tasks in case the need for a specific job increases (or an important job becomes involuntarily vacant, to use an euphemism for death, sickness or dismemberment)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 7557434, member: 710"] However, I am not sure there would be an "Engineer" priesthood or a ruling class. We know from Earth already that class systems suck. They don't actually lead to competent people at the right spot. I would expect that pretty much everyone aboard the Generation Ship would have duties to fulfill, and everyone would to read manuals and teaching materials, or view instructional videos for [I]something[/I]. And many probably have to be able to fill in multiple roles, because they need to have a good fault-tolerance. If something goes wrong and, say, and an engineering crew is blown out of a hull breach, they need people to fill in quickly. In everyone's childhood, people would need to study a lot and make aptitude tests to figure out what jobs they are best suited to - of course, there is no absolute guarantee they can work in the job they are best suited for, because there are only so many spots for each job and all the jobs on the ship need to be filled, but they'll try to get people close. Though it might be that people will also rotate jobs, to avoid people getting bored, and to ensure that everyone is qualified to handle multiple tasks in case the need for a specific job increases (or an important job becomes involuntarily vacant, to use an euphemism for death, sickness or dismemberment) [/QUOTE]
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