From: Dom Twist [thazar@globalnet.co.uk]
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 1:18 PM
To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com
Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Another Career Option...

> If such a program was widely implemented and well
> known, it is not a far fetched idea. There are people
> who commit minor crimes so that they spend the
> winter months in low security prision.

Quite. Lots of examples of the first born child of poor-but-aspiring
family's having petty crime record's in Victorian england....if you got
convicted while still a minor you were sent to 'reform school' where you
were taught to read and write etc.....before the state provided basic
education for all this might be the only way poor parents could get their
children educated...by getting them sent to jail.

Would shipping un-skilled labour to Poisden be economic?
The GEO wont care.....they'll do it by shipping whoever they need there and
damn the cost.....and their sponsered colonys will be of the correct balance
of different skill sets and backgrounds and no doubt the selection process
will be so PC as to make the colonies severly handicapped.

Incorperates on the Other hand........I cant the likes of NIS and Hannover
shipping grunts out....too expensive. However they are independent states
and have their own law. I dare say that low echelon technical skills are
their biggest problem....high flyers are 'with the program' and go where
they're wanted.....grunts can be recruited localy. However Med-techs,
Skilled Deep Water Miners, Computer Techs etc........if they fall foul of
Incorp law may well find they're contracts indentured and forced to work as
required on the BP. Shimshur needs techs....what better source than those
that have 'fallen' (or been pushed') from grace on the homeworld....for
those nasty but technicaly demanding jobs on the BP?

DomT

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