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bijoumikhawal · 1 year

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depressing to talk about I guess, but given the Federation's form of ableism and the lack of pressure to work, Earth at least probably has a massive NEET (or NET I guess) problem

#cipher talk #All that 'we have improving ourself as our highest priority' stuff is nice but it has a direct line to the thinking that lead to #Julian's parents augmenting him #The fact that it's illegal but people still do it- primarily to children it seems- indicates that while Earth fears the Eugenics wars #It has done little to eradicate the ideology that led to them in the case of intellectual and developmental disability #Also notable that it's only humans that do this shit. Even though other cultures know about it we've only met augmented humans #Is that sentiment protestant work ethic... I feel like you'd have to see what goes on outside Starfleet to know

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