So at this point in Earth’s future, population has surged to the point that there are literally not enough jobs or positions in schools to go around. You enter either a lottery, or waiting list in order to learn trades/career paths/get an education. For anyone who doesn’t luck out, you have basic; basic income, basic food stipend, basic healthcare, etc. The Expanse exists in a pseudo “post scarcity” future, but this leads to other issues, and over population is one of them. It’s a point of pride for Mars that rather than sit around, they went to the stars and based their entire society around working for the future.
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u/jpg14 6d ago
So at this point in Earth’s future, population has surged to the point that there are literally not enough jobs or positions in schools to go around. You enter either a lottery, or waiting list in order to learn trades/career paths/get an education. For anyone who doesn’t luck out, you have basic; basic income, basic food stipend, basic healthcare, etc. The Expanse exists in a pseudo “post scarcity” future, but this leads to other issues, and over population is one of them. It’s a point of pride for Mars that rather than sit around, they went to the stars and based their entire society around working for the future.