Timeline for What mandates travel in an interstellar society?
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| Oct 1, 2018 at 23:38 | comment | added | Mark | @Makyen, you're likely to see a split between a "groundsider" social group (people who stay on one planet their whole lives, or move between planets at most once or twice) and a "spacesider" social group (people who spend their lives moving from planet to planet, never establishing long-term connections with groundsiders). Sure, a spacesider entertainer is going to lose popularity on their home planet (to the limited extent that they have one), but they'll always be the "exotic new thing" on any planet they travel to, in a career spanning hundreds or thousands of groundsider years. | |
| Oct 1, 2018 at 23:17 | comment | added | Makyen | To be clear, I'm not trying to be negative about your answer, just thinking things through. | |
| Oct 1, 2018 at 23:17 | comment | added | Makyen | Yes, with the OP's update, the cost in personal lifespan is nearly zero. However, the cost in being disconnected, potentially permanently and completely, from your entire social network and the society you live in, limits the attractiveness and/or focuses it on specific personality types. E.g. as an entertainer, are you going to take a tour of multiple planets, which removes you completely from your current society for between 15 to 200+ years? In that time, your popularity in your home system is likely to decline dramatically, as you're not releasing new content or staying up with trends. | |
| Oct 1, 2018 at 21:57 | comment | added | Michael Kutz |
@Makyen - As I reread the OP, the aging of the person after travel is close to 0. Externally would be years to decades. Long term vacations might work. But, only for the Stupid Rich. A variation of "on temporary vacation" would be "on permanent vacation". This can be implemented by a group of people with a culture of "not being a permanent resident anywhere" (thus bypassing your "leave everyone you know behind" problem). I've edited my post to include such groups.
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| Oct 1, 2018 at 21:45 | history | edited | Michael Kutz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 1, 2018 at 16:44 | comment | added | Makyen | While this is possible, the travel requiring years makes a significant difference as to the willingness of many people to travel for a "gig". In many cases, this would result in the person taking the gig effectively leaving behind everyone they know, permanently. While some, where the "gig" is in the closest system, would only be gone for what the home system experiences as a few years, others would be gone for decades, if not a century, or more (when there are multiple stops; e.g. a traveling circus). This makes things like vacation travel much less attractive for most people. | |
| Oct 1, 2018 at 9:51 | comment | added | Hobbamok | Damn, I came up with auditor too late. They would be ideal though. Any interstellar company will have a billion of them employed, and if I invest half my life earnings in a space dock I want someone from the outside to make sure its ok. | |
| Oct 1, 2018 at 2:40 | history | answered | Michael Kutz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |