I think the wording is crucial on this point, yes. I'm open to terms like "earned", or "justifies".
"Deserves" has moral connotations to it. As we see now in the US, it's extremely dangerous to associate moral qualities with economic outcomes.
Also, my original objection was to the question, "Is every human equal?" There, I have no semantic qualifiers - all humans are created equal, and deserve equal rights. Full stop.
My main disagreement with your point is the word "deserve". I don't actually have a problem with an economic system that rewards some activities more than others, as long as there's a humane baseline for everyone. But I think that's absolutely an economic choice, and not the only reasonable one.
"Deserve" implies to me that there's a moral system judging one activity as more worthy, or better, than another; rather than simply being more valuable to a particular economic model. It seems like a short step from that to deciding some people are more worthy than others.
Nah, most of humanity at least is either living idyllic lives, or chose to live on a frontier world or research station or something. Starfleet's just the exploratory arm of the Federation; but that's where most of the fun stories are!
A lot of people know kids are expensive, but very few non-parents really grasp just how expensive - the nickels and dimes turn into fifties and hundreds pretty fast.
And that's before you run into things like medical complications!
The question is what kind of stupidity that would even be. He's already done so many things that if anyone else has even tried, they'd have shot themselves in the foot.
You're not wrong, and I feel like it was a developing problem even before AI - everybody wanted someone with experience, even if the technology was brand new.
That said, even if you and I will be fine, it's still bad for the industry. And even if we weren't the ones pulling up the ladder behind us, I'd still like to find a way to start throwing ropes back down for the newbies...
Yeah, it sounds like the "escort an immigrant" drives have been pretty effective so far - it sounds like they're pretty conflict avoidant when they don't have overwhelming force. So far, at least.
Nice collection! That was most of the ones I was thinking of. But wasn't there one where the mom tells the dad "Oh, but you look so cute doing the 'happy hamster hop!'"? Think he was grumbling to her about reading it again. "I don't want to look cute!"
My fear for the software industry is that we'll end up replacing junior devs with AI assistance, and then in a decade or two, we'll see a lack of mid-level and senior devs, because they never had a chance to enter the industry.
Ironsworn was my first exposure to a fiction-first game! I didn't really gel with the setting, but still really like the mechanics. Ended up backing Starforged (and later Sundered Isles), that seems like a much better fit for me!
I think the wording is crucial on this point, yes. I'm open to terms like "earned", or "justifies".
"Deserves" has moral connotations to it. As we see now in the US, it's extremely dangerous to associate moral qualities with economic outcomes.
Also, my original objection was to the question, "Is every human equal?" There, I have no semantic qualifiers - all humans are created equal, and deserve equal rights. Full stop.