We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future: Difference between revisions

* Slave traffic is mentioned in [[Traveller]]. It is illegal in the Imperium, though the Sword Worlds have a judicial slavery as punishment for murder, treason, and other heinous crimes (which makes one amused at the [[Irony]] of the fate of a [[Space Pirate]] caught while trying to sell off his captives). It is not always made clear what the slaves are expected to do. However the [[Schizo-Tech]] of [[Traveller]] at least sort of justifies it.

**Some VIPs prefer servants to robots. Sometimes this is vanity but perhaps some aspects of domestic work might still be better done by a human or alien then a robot.

**A lot depends on the twists and turns of local economy and politics, and a given culture can be behind either generally or ahead. Or simply they may have their own ideas about what to do with labor freed up by machines. Or whatever the GM picks. For instance the Sword Worlds which are an interstellar society are so short of antigravity vehicles that they often resort to wheels and tracks and in out of the way country, even to animals.

* This is almost to be expected in ''[[Rifts]]'', given the [[Schizo-Tech]] of the setting. Throughout much of North America, people are often enslaved or indentured, turned into cyborgs and used as miners. The Coalition doesn't use slave-borgs, but [[Fantastic Racism|nonhumans]] are sometimes enslaved and employed in the mega-cities or the 'burbs. In magic-dominated places, meanwhile, slavery is widespread and slaves are used for any and every task, be it labor, warfare, [[Gladiator Games]], [[Sex Slave|sex]] or [[To Serve Man|food]] (the latter is a big one, since a ''lot'' of alien evils do it to cement their [[Card-Carrying Villain]] status).