We don’t actually see any mining on the show - it mainly deals with civilian spaceship crews, space dockworkers, and various technical and support personnel. While they aren’t technically slaves, many of them are underpaid and exploited by their corporate employers, landlords, and governments. So, you know… pretty realistic.
All those in favor of more Star Wars discussion, please eat your fingers.
They did have miners and mining equipment (used for purposes other than mining) as plot points, but you are correct that the actual mining itself is never portrayed.
Without getting into spoilers, one of the key plots of the show later on involves repurposing mining ships for warfare/sabotage, and the efforts to stop that scheme.
Oh, you haven’t been listening to Allied propaganda again, have you?
oh, go something something something Elon Musk something something
I’d participate in a crowdfunding effort to send musk off to join the Empire.
Say what you will about Musk, he really knows how to goose sales of a slow-moving product.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
You won’t say that when you’re working on Chiron Beta Prime for our robot overlords protectors.
Okay, you, now back to the mine.
There is only one prison planet worth mentioning. All the others are cakewalks by comparison.
At one point we see them bring in a huge block of ice to a ship or station or something and there’s an accident where an extra loses his arm, IIRC?
The main protagonists of the show start as the crew of an ice freighter called Canterbury, that’s how they know each other. I don’t think they were miners though, they were the equivalent of a modern day freighter ship hauling something from port to port.
But if your point is that we see the economy in action at that point, I agree with you there. Sometimes it’s more in the foreground than other times.
Remember the Cant!!!
voluntarily chomps on fingers
I think Salusa Secundus deserves a shout out.
Things are going great with Elmo’s AI.
If Musk was literally paying a salary to this guy for being a violent extremist and incitement influencer, does he have any liability?
I’m loving the increase on Community Notes I’m seeing to fight back against the right wing nonsense lately.
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before feminism came around women were literally treated like princesses, doors held open, no financial worries, no exhausting jobs & seen as too delicate to do tough work. Now women are expected to be just as tough and do all the hard work that should be reserved for men smh.
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This has never been the case
I think zoomertea’s position is that women were taken care of by men, and then feminism came along, at which point they had to take care of themselves. The hilarious part of their post is “no exhausting jobs” – because, being a mother to a bunch of children and trying to maintain a household is not at all like work, no, no, no (because, you know, they did not get paid wages for it).
I rate a ton of community notes every week, but it feels a lot like swimming a very heavy tide.