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    Sci-Fi Tech Shanghaied to Saturn: forced labor in space

    Yeah, "people regretting their contract" seems much more likely than true false pretenses happening. Like, you think 4 years of sign up is fine, especially maybe combined with a training program, but 2 years in it becomes untollerable. But, well, unlike college you can't just drop out. Or maybe...
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    Sci-Fi Tech Shanghaied to Saturn: forced labor in space

    Yeah, its definitely an unideal solution. You need two basic things to be true: 1) for some reason, you can't offer high enough salaries to attract the necessary workers. For example to take the space welder. Lets say you can make $100,000 dollars a year working in lunar orbit, with all the...
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    Sci-Fi Tech Shanghaied to Saturn: forced labor in space

    Of course, the definition of "skilled" vs "unskilled" is going to be somewhat skewed for space natives. Plus I assume "deep" space mining might be sufficiently unpleasant that your just going to have a hard time getting enough volunteers for it: like, if your a space welder or something, being...
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    Sci-Fi Tech Shanghaied to Saturn: forced labor in space

    Back in the age of sail, Shanghaiing was a thing that happened. Basically, one was tricked into signing up for a ship, sometimes by getting one black out drunk, forging their signature, and having them wake up on a ship several hours out to sea. The question is, how possible would such a thing...
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