The D3 class divide is really interesting especially if you think about the fact that you would have the equivalents of both Apple and Foxconn in the same district (which I hadn't really thought through until just now). And especially if it's based on testing from childhood it could definitely really break up families, yikes!
a larger proportion of the demand is for relatively small batch orders of complex items for Capitol citizens or specific industries, rather than mass-manufacture items (as there are so few in the districts who can afford a lot of technology, and many of the district industries don't require it) Yes, I was thinking about this to in terms of 6 (of course) because they’d be producing for the Capitol and the Peacekeepers and a few rich people and not for the general public, so much lower volume than say Detroit at peak production.
I also imagine that the Capitol maintains a rather tight control on ownership of the science and technology firms, through either nationalization of certain industries or prohibiting ownership of R/D or manufacturing firms by non-Capitol citizens, etc Yes I think anyone having any kind of business (from the bakery on up) has to be licensed by the Capitol and the more potentially threatening the business the more closely that's monitored.
Like other totalitarian states, Panem is sacrificing the economic growth (and the prosperity and human flourishing that accompany that growth) and engaging in debilitating levels of social control in order to maintain a power order. YES EXACTLY. When I'm thinking "How might X work in Panem" I think about, in priority order: control, efficient use of (presumably scarer-than-currently) resources, then productivity. Control is the only way you can explain splitting off various industries geographically (especially power generation holy transmission losses, that basically cannot actually be the only place that generates power).
Wiress loves to take someone’s camcorder when they’re not looking and film weird bits (making faces, singing songs, etc), just to watch their reaction when their notes are interrupted with something ridiculous.
like the surprise cake they baked to present his mentor on her 70th birthday, the time Beetee accidentally set his labcoat on fire (which, of course, was only funny for him in retrospect, when he could hear Wiress’s color commentary pompously regurgitating the standard National Science Acadmey speech about ‘the duty of the superior alpha class to use their gifts for the glory of Panem’), or the time his mentor fell asleep over an experiment and the other victors gleefully decorated her with toilet paper, spare wire and a string of LEDs. My favorite thing is nerdy prank stories (probably has something to do with going to engineering school and participating in nerdy pranks) and I WANT MORE OF THIS PLS
if wanting my coerced and damaged child killers to be one big happy family is wrong, then I don’t wanna be right. TRUE STORY
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The D3 class divide is really interesting especially if you think about the fact that you would have the equivalents of both Apple and Foxconn in the same district (which I hadn't really thought through until just now). And especially if it's based on testing from childhood it could definitely really break up families, yikes!
a larger proportion of the demand is for relatively small batch orders of complex items for Capitol citizens or specific industries, rather than mass-manufacture items (as there are so few in the districts who can afford a lot of technology, and many of the district industries don't require it)
Yes, I was thinking about this to in terms of 6 (of course) because they’d be producing for the Capitol and the Peacekeepers and a few rich people and not for the general public, so much lower volume than say Detroit at peak production.
I also imagine that the Capitol maintains a rather tight control on ownership of the science and technology firms, through either nationalization of certain industries or prohibiting ownership of R/D or manufacturing firms by non-Capitol citizens, etc
Yes I think anyone having any kind of business (from the bakery on up) has to be licensed by the Capitol and the more potentially threatening the business the more closely that's monitored.
Like other totalitarian states, Panem is sacrificing the economic growth (and the prosperity and human flourishing that accompany that growth) and engaging in debilitating levels of social control in order to maintain a power order.
YES EXACTLY. When I'm thinking "How might X work in Panem" I think about, in priority order: control, efficient use of (presumably scarer-than-currently) resources, then productivity. Control is the only way you can explain splitting off various industries geographically (especially power generation holy transmission losses, that basically cannot actually be the only place that generates power).
Wiress loves to take someone’s camcorder when they’re not looking and film weird bits (making faces, singing songs, etc), just to watch their reaction when their notes are interrupted with something ridiculous.
like the surprise cake they baked to present his mentor on her 70th birthday, the time Beetee accidentally set his labcoat on fire (which, of course, was only funny for him in retrospect, when he could hear Wiress’s color commentary pompously regurgitating the standard National Science Acadmey speech about ‘the duty of the superior alpha class to use their gifts for the glory of Panem’), or the time his mentor fell asleep over an experiment and the other victors gleefully decorated her with toilet paper, spare wire and a string of LEDs.
My favorite thing is nerdy prank stories (probably has something to do with going to engineering school and participating in nerdy pranks) and I WANT MORE OF THIS PLS
if wanting my coerced and damaged child killers to be one big happy family is wrong, then I don’t wanna be right.
TRUE STORY