2/ The two guys share the room - blown away by how much space they have. It's AMAZING. ...and then they each invite in a friend to share it. ...and the friends invite friends. And pretty soon...the thing is a crap hole, just like the rest of the overpopulated city.
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3/ The consensus immigration policy in the US is basically "that's an awesome short story, and we should definitely do the same thing with all of America."
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4/ 500 years ago the West discovered an entire hemisphere. No kings, no taxes, thanks to plagues almost no inhabitants. For 400 years it worked very well. Unprecedented wealth, freedom, self government. Friends were invited, but only good ones. Brothers, and a few cousins.
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5/ But somewhere along the line someone invited in enough !@#$-holes, who liked ruling people. When you like ruling, you need (a) more people to rule, (b) less restrictions on your power.
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6/ So that's when we threw the doors open and started inviting in tens of millions of absolute strangers. People with strange religions, strange political theories, strange lack of desire to work, strange lack of intellectual gifts. We've crossed the tipping point.
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7/ The secret room / secret hemisphere is going to go under, and be just like the craphole we left.
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8/ This is why we need spaceflight. Exit. Exit. Exit.
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10/ Korolev smiled. Andy grinned back. "We grabbed those power cables and just pulled ourselves straight up. And when you get to the top, well, man, you either make that big jump or else you rot there." http://lib.ru/STERLINGB/r_star.txt …
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At 3.5 m^2 per person, the 20 billion people of "Billennium" could be put into an area of 70,000 km^2---about the size of Maine. I'd like to know who (or what) has taken over the rest of Earth.
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