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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 7562036" data-attributes="member: 13107">So ... I don't think it has been set what is the ratio of the ship's population to the number of roles which would need to be filled.There might be 1000 people and just 100 distinct roles.We also haven't specified how many roles a single person can cover.  Given that they might not have much else to do, learning several roles might be the norm.  Then we might have 1000 people each with three different roles (on average) covering 100 distinct roles.My numbers are made up here, of course.  But are they unreasonable?  Or at least feasible?As to highly constrained environments (what others are calling environmentally imposed slavery).  That has to be considered in comparison with other environments.  Say, growing up poor in Mexico City, or in a large city in many many places in the world.  It's hard to pursue this very far without invoking too many real issues, but I don't think I have to go there: There are a lot of places which would much much worst than the ship environment.  (At least, assuming that the ship environment is not a complete nightmare, which might be the case, but we haven't set what the environment would be like.)Also, this does not consider how the Earth's environment might turn out in not too much time.  Again, I don't think I need to enumerate this to make the point that the Earth might become a very terrible place to live, in comparison to which the ship environment, however constrained, might be a lot better.Thx!TomB</blockquote>

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