Thread:Ghelæ/@comment-5080468-20170729213650/@comment-5080468-20170801225645

It's interesting what possible "menial work" could exist in Medwedia, because most tier 3 and 4 societies would use robots and 3D printers, the classic "worker" being replaced by a machine programmer, supervisor and inspector (if this role is not taken by a computer).

You've brought up an interesting point. The state could purposefully withhold automation technology from the workers to keep them occupied. It would be another case of governmental tech suppression - as you have already heard, medical technology and lifesaving drugs are exclusively avaliable by the elite. Major usage only occurs if a plague threatens a whole planet. If this is not the case, ever-increasing mountains of drugs and machines are kept under locks in secret underground depots.

A hard-to-understand element of Medwedian ideology is the purposeful lowering of life standards for the working class. Workers can't have good food or medicine if they are sick not because it's unavaliable but because the state does not want them to enjoy it.

The point of not giving a worker chemotherapy when he gets cancer is not saving energy and resources but not giving him the luxury of treatment.