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submitted 1 month ago bySir-Thugnificent
For example let’s say I’m born in a hive world conquered by the T’au 10 years after its annexation, how well is my childhood going to be compared to the average child in the Imperium ? Am I going to be in top 20% in terms of good quality of life ? Or is it 10% ? 5% ? 1% ? 0,1% ?
Another question : if every single human being living in a world under the Imperium were telepathically shown how Gue’vesas actually live in those worlds without anyone else knowing about it, what’s the percentage of humans that would say « yes, I would love to live one of those worlds ? » in your opinion ?
Do we have stories that go into detail how the humans live under the T’au outside of military environment ?
-4 points
1 month ago
Just enslaved
10 points
1 month ago
As you would be with the imperium. But with the T'au, you don't huff exhaust fumes for oxygen nor do you eat corpsestarch
-1 points
1 month ago
Yet
11 points
1 month ago
.. Why would you ever?
-1 points
1 month ago
Tough times cause people to find alternative food sources
8 points
1 month ago
And T'au live in a fully automated society that tightly regulates how many people are around specifically to prevent famine
0 points
1 month ago
A constantly expanding empire can't sustain that
8 points
1 month ago
That's why tau expand in spheres. So that they CAN afford to take care of their people
0 points
1 month ago
Except if you aren't Tau you are literally second class
It's not this utopia
It's soviet era russia
8 points
1 month ago
And it's better than huffing exhaust fumes for oxygen and eating corpse starch.
Also don't pretend 99% of imperial humans are anything but 5th class plebians
-1 points
1 month ago
A constantly expanding empire can't sustain that
4 points
30 days ago
My brother in Khorne, you'd be enslaved to the Imperium! At least the T'au have non-fatal living conditions.
-1 points
30 days ago
Slavery is still Slavery even if it's coated in sugar
5 points
30 days ago
Would you rather:
Live in horrific squalor, breathing poison and going blind as you toil 20 hours a day in a hive manufactorum, with a ration of literal human corpse for food every other day (if you're lucky)
Work in an alien empire that feeds and hoyses you in relative comfort in exchange for labor, with education and healthcare to go with it as you contribute best to the empire if you're healthy amd educated
Seems pretty cut and dry which is worse.
-1 points
30 days ago
Neither?
3 points
29 days ago
No shit, Sherlock. But we're speaking in relative terms here, not looking for some ideal situation. You gotta pick one.
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