So I understand the above items (latinum being the most important and fungible) being non-replicatable. But at the point where Starfleet is permanently on your station and has easy access to both replicators and infinite energy, why aren't the Bajorans also post-scarcity? You'd think that tech, while powerful, is a far more important thing to trade for and Starfleet has an incentive to uplift societies it isn't at war with to prevent scarcity wars and instability.
Very similar mentalities. In both cases you have people who know what they are doing is wrong but don't wish to admit it. So they craft justifications on why what they are doing is OK. Both tend to create cognitive dissonance that often leads to anger when confronted.
Is it wrong, now, for you and your culture to invade someone else and forcibly remove them from their land?
If no, then you don't have modern morality and you're likely making an argument like "we conquer people all the time, might makes right" etc.
If yes, then you have to apply that to benefits you and your society received and are still benefiting from. And that means making redress for past wrongs you personally didn't commit. Otherwise the logic follows that the sin or crime only follows to the direct perpetrator and transferring that benefit to another absolves that person, especially when transferal wasn't voluntary (inherited).
This doesn't mean that descendants of colonizers must vacate all land. It means the society needs to have a frank and honest discussion about what redress means. This is at the heart of similar movements like slavery reparations. We can't undo the wrongs of the past but we can stop making them and try to make it right to the descendants of those that were harmed.
Now this obviously can't be taken back all the way into prehistory. As everyone acknowledged: humanity is a brutal species. But we can make redress for the most recent and often still ongoing wrongs. We should also attempt to address past wrongs but to the level appropriate to the passage of time, existence of descendants, etc.
We can see this happening now with the return of art that colonizers and other thieves took from other countries. We can't undo the theft, but returning to the originating culture is a feasible solution. When talking about land stolen en masse a few hundreds of years ago, and the terrible atrocities committed to a still-existing culture to enforce that theft, there's a variety of solutions, none of which are total return of all land. In all things we can't unduly punish those existing now that didn't have a say while also trying to do right to those still burdened by past atrocities.
If only the people who wanted to go in went in there'd be practically no commutes. There'd be a lot less reason to have an office, but people can self-select jobs for that, too.
It's weird how they think Missouri doesn't have homeless people. I can't get past paywall but I assume they moved into a rural area and not to someplace like St Louis.
I’m an engineer, I quit Intel (after the startup I worked for was acquired) because Intel powers much of the MI complex. I quit Illumina when it became clear I was directly assisting with state level genetic experiments. As an engineer I could easily get a job elsewhere where I was not directly contributing to the downfall of my fellow humans.
You are what we call, privileged. Maybe you should...check it?
You can to an extent, but that's a losing venture. If pubic opinion goes against this tech hard enough, it'll keep some people from working in those industries. BUT if those products are profitable enough, they will simply pay more and that'll be moot.
Attacking the people who are earning a living isn't the answer. Most people take the job with the best combo of pay and work/life balance they can find in their area, or if they can afford to move. Not that many have the luxury to pick and choose based on their morality. And if compensation is high enough, it's a lot less likely.
It's far easier to try to prevent this tech from being used at all. I know political action is hard as hell but it's a lot easier than trying to ostracize an entire industry's worth of workers. It may feel easier to denigrate faceless individuals but that won't accomplish anything. Plenty of people work for weapons manufacturers and such.
