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Re: Who needs slaves when you've got robots?
Posted By: YossarianDate: 1/31/17 11:19 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Who needs slaves when you've got robots? (PerseusSpartacus)

: Essentially, by the time we see the Pfhor, they are equivalent to the
: Soviet Union in its final years, only ten times worse.

Indeed, and in the Soviet Union a little reform is what finally caused the collapse of the foundation. I don't think it was such that the Pfhor were too stubborn to adapt as much as it was that their empire had expanded and stagnated to the point where reform would have been impossible or lethal to it.

It seems to me that the Pfhor lacked the kind of market forces and military rivalries that otherwise fuel innovation and increases in efficiency/productivity. Most of their tech was raided or jury-rigged and if what you've been doing has been successful for several centuries why change it all up? Perhaps the Pfhor understood their slaves' capabilities only enough to exploit them, but not enough to replicate them through technological means.

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Who needs slaves when you've got robots?Forrest of B.org 1/30/17 6:18 p.m.
     Re: Who needs slaves when you've got robots?General-RADIX 1/31/17 3:20 a.m.
           Re: Who needs slaves when you've got robots?PerseusSpartacus 1/31/17 5:46 a.m.
                 Re: Who needs slaves when you've got robots?Yossarian 1/31/17 11:19 p.m.
                       Re: Who needs slaves when you've got robots?Forrest of B.org 2/1/17 9:03 a.m.
                             Re: Who needs slaves when you've got robots?Yossarian 2/2/17 2:51 a.m.
                                   Re: Who needs slaves when you've got robots?Forrest of B.org 2/2/17 7:28 a.m.
                                         Re: Who needs slaves when you've got robots?VikingBoyBilly 2/3/17 1:43 a.m.
           Re: Who needs slaves when you've got robots?Bob-B-Q 1/31/17 6:27 a.m.
     Re: Who needs slaves when you've got robots?VikingBoyBilly 2/1/17 3:09 a.m.
           Re: Who needs slaves when you've got robots?Forrest of B.org 2/1/17 9:17 a.m.
                 Re: Who needs slaves when you've got robots?Bob-B-Q 2/2/17 9:52 a.m.
                       Re: Who needs slaves when you've got robots?Forrest of B.org 2/2/17 3:02 p.m.
                             Deimos has bedrock? *NM*VikingBoyBilly 2/3/17 1:36 a.m.
                                   I think he was referring to the planet below. *NM*PerseusSpartacus 2/3/17 5:17 a.m.
                                         That one mentioned in the intro and at the end? *NM*VikingBoyBilly 2/3/17 3:05 p.m.
                                               Re: That one mentioned in the intro and at the endForrest of B.org 2/5/17 10:11 a.m.
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                             Re: Who needs slaves when you've got robots?PerseusSpartacus 2/3/17 5:23 a.m.
                                   Re: Who needs slaves when you've got robots?Forrest of B.org 2/3/17 7:47 a.m.
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                                                                             Re: Who needs slaves when you've got robots?Forrest of B.org 2/5/17 9:46 p.m.
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                                                                 Re: Who needs slaves when you've got robots?Forrest of B.org 2/5/17 9:48 p.m.

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