Nope worse! He's a living exhibit. Living within his continuing delusions of grandeur and control lucid enough to acknowledge to the failings that happened around him yet not lucid enough to break his own chains and advance.
That's legitimately the state of our own monarchy in the UK lol Charles and Co can sod themselves for all we care, just keep the tabloids full and we're golden!
When the fight would be so one sided it would be like a professional boxer fighting a baby. In this story we literally won without them being able to do anything to us at all and without us attacking them. This was essentially picking someone up by the back of their collar and watching them flail their fists around trying to hit you when you're out f their reach.
@@Nyghtking Economics and trade is just another form of warfare. These Humans sliced their enemies tendons just as if they held a blade, and you tell me they weren't vindictive? This humans are a cold calculating ruthless people, that are also empathetic and driven by justice. But that ending shows they are vindictive.
You can conquer A nation by warfare or you can conquer it by economics. Like this slave empire fell apart because of economic ruin. the humans in this story played the long game, it was a gamble and it ended up paying off and now the great emperor of a slave empire is nothing more than a living attraction in a museum/palace of his race. The military technologies of his people were so far out of date compared to the military prowess of humanity that it would not have been a fair fight. The declaration of war was basically laughed off by the armies of humanity saying it would not have been a fair fight. Like someone else in the comments compared their military prowess being the equivalent of a flailing child compared to a pro boxer.
Earth in this story is like a teenager growing up wearing all those "cool" stuff and flaunting it then met with a mistake so bad they changed for the better and now in adulthood the child is now an adult, suit and tie, snappy, thats how i saw the earth in this story a bloodless victory is my most favorite form of success
That one had me literally say "WOW" at the end. A really multilayered and deep story. And you just knew from the human ambassadors initial response and proposal that they were being set up hard. You didn't quite know how, but you could sense that big middle finger rising up over the horizon....
Bah to the pessimism! It couldn't be War for it would be like cheating a beginner. Humanity had to be the adult in the room because no one else was going to and like that. Reason reigned in the rest without contempt.
@@mikeharris6429 I guess HFY is definitely a blue (marble) pilled view on the direction humanity is heading. While I would like to see more realistic takes especially as I love old cyberpunk, the general optimism of HFY is one of the reasons why I regularly read them as escapism.
All governments rise and fall eventually. Many of the great European powers are only shadows of their former selves, while new powers rise. Those to will fall, and new will arise.
@@SoMuchFacepalm Yeah... I've seen star trek. But ppl will still want stuff... like art, experiences, thrills, services and novel items and gadget. Which means a demand driven market... and hence capitalism. Just not the one we see today. 😄
Economic warfare isn't exactly civilized, just because you aren't ripping someone's body apart with hot lead, doesn't mean you aren't causing suffering. An economic war of liberation on the other hand, is at least somewhat civilized. You're liberating slaves by improving their lives whilst screwing over their oppressors. In warfare, no matter the type, someone always suffers, it's just a question of trying to limit that suffering to the people who deserve it, as best you can.
Humanity became techno-gods, built a fence around their property like the Star League's frontier barrier from The Last Starfighter, and used the appeal method of the T'au in bringing out better goods to flood the market and make the people want a better life out of serfdom and slavery
@@zacharyhawley1693 Not really, brainwashing and propaganda have a terrible long-term track record. Its much harder to find and present an alternative that is actually better, that people will actually want, but it's much more likely to be successful.
@@johnjohnjohnson7720 "make people change" "an alternative that is actually better, that people will actually want" Can you spot the different between these?
@@SoMuchFacepalm Merely a difference in wording. He said "Convince them they want to change." Sure, you can do that with Propoganda, but that's ineffective as you pointed out. Giving them an alternative they want is still "convincing them they want to change."
I really like this one. It's much more economically rational. A system built upon coercion is inherently less efficient than one built upon cooperation.
What an incredible comedown! Truthfully though, I can't imagine how they made it into space on a slave-based economy. All it would take is for one disgruntled slave in the right position to bide his time to sabotage such efforts.
By the wording of the story, I get the feeling that some - if not the majority - of their rivals went willingly. They saw the value of letting slavery and serfage(?) become obsolete. I mean, if the non slavers are out doing you on every front, you might want to reevaluate your system. It reminds me of how some abolitionists and Underground Railroad stops were slave owners. This was brought up one time in Social Studies when I was a kid. I honestly don't know if the following story is true, but considering my own family's foray into slave ownership, it's somewhat believable. One classmate claimed that his great great grandfather was released from slavery when an escaped slave decided to stay at his Master's stop, but the Master didn't need another one, so he asked for a volunteer to leave. Apparently, to the amusement of the Master, half his slaves raised their hands, most in all sincerity because, well, SLAVERY. So he let the one with the most marketable talent go. He chose the most marketable one to give him a better chance of survival as a Freed Man. The only real caveat being that he'd take his replacement under his wing and train him for free. The replacement turned out to be a she, and they ended up getting hitched. Though, she remained with the Master until Lincoln's Imancitation Proclamation. The Master was a Jew, and apparently threw a biblically accurate Jubilee on hearing about the Imancitation Proclamation. He had apparently voted for, and let his sons fight for the Confederacy and the right for each state to decide on if and when they would abolish slavery because of the economic hardship it would bring the states if done too early or abruptly, but had zero problem owning slaves as long as he treated them well. The Master was, of course, in the minority and was always arguing with his peers about it. Of course, his view was usually dismissed on account of him being a practicing Jew. It's an ironic and self contradictory view, really. When Israel was following The Law well enough to treat its slave class the way it was supposed to, it would also be following God's laws on generosity, hospitality, and "However, no one among you should become poor, for Jehovah will surely bless you in the land that Jehovah your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance," - Deu 15 v4. Meaning there would be no need for slaves anyway; since most slaves at the time were either more like indentured servants working off debt or conquered. So a practicing Jew or Converted Jew wouldn't have slaves, really.
interesting story, kinda devolves into religious propaganda in the end, in a way that makes me suspect it's made up. but I like it nonetheless. You really overestimate the impact of religion on people's opinions. Usually people use religion as an excuse to stick to their stance, not to form it.
@@giarnovanzeijl399 Well, it depends on the person. The majority of the time, the ancient Jews were just going through the motions, like most Christians today. But, regardless of the religion the world would be a whole lot better off if people would just live what they claim to believe; with a very few exceptions.
I think this is probably a "me problem" but is anyone else bothered by the floating rock and the flying saucer? The way they constantly bob around just bugs me. The swaying is fine it's just the bobbing . . . I'm weird . . . .
We are species that is all things but isn't all things at the same time we are a species which is like an omni tool we are heavily modular we are as if God designed us to live work and manipulate the environment and a whole variety of environment hot cold dry you name it we can adapt to it we are the perfect species to be the guys in the Senate representing other species we are perfectly due to our background due to the way how are different nations and different subcultures of humans and all the other stuff we human beings are like a miniature version of the Galaxy played on a planet that human beings extremely well-equipped to slip into any designated roll possible and since down to a very culture we're used to the most extreme cases of anything that could happen out in the galaxy anything that might happen is going to be something that has already been solved by human beings all we have to do is figure out the advanced math and sciences need to build engines and warp drives and Shields and armor and weapons and maybe a second drive to act that way the ship can move in a different directions while in a fight.
"What greater insult can be offered to a foe, than to be made irrelevant." - Emperor Urdnot Wrex
Gad damn the nostalgia. Gotta reply the entire saga now.
"... king of kings. Look upon my works, ye mighty, and dispair"
That's from the poem Ozymandius.
Lulz this be “cosmic irony”
Shameless plagiarism!
So the emperor basically become tour guide of his own palace.
Nope worse!
He's a living exhibit.
Living within his continuing delusions of grandeur and control lucid enough to acknowledge to the failings that happened around him yet not lucid enough to break his own chains and advance.
That's legitimately the state of our own monarchy in the UK lol
Charles and Co can sod themselves for all we care, just keep the tabloids full and we're golden!
" I declare war!"
"No you don't. Now go to your room, you're grounded."
I'm sorry since when are we not a vindictive species?
When the fight would be so one sided it would be like a professional boxer fighting a baby.
In this story we literally won without them being able to do anything to us at all and without us attacking them.
This was essentially picking someone up by the back of their collar and watching them flail their fists around trying to hit you when you're out f their reach.
@@Nyghtking Economics and trade is just another form of warfare.
These Humans sliced their enemies tendons just as if they held a blade, and you tell me they weren't vindictive? This humans are a cold calculating ruthless people, that are also empathetic and driven by justice. But that ending shows they are vindictive.
@@LordGertz indeed the ending was incredibly vindictive
You can conquer A nation by warfare or you can conquer it by economics. Like this slave empire fell apart because of economic ruin. the humans in this story played the long game, it was a gamble and it ended up paying off and now the great emperor of a slave empire is nothing more than a living attraction in a museum/palace of his race.
The military technologies of his people were so far out of date compared to the military prowess of humanity that it would not have been a fair fight.
The declaration of war was basically laughed off by the armies of humanity saying it would not have been a fair fight.
Like someone else in the comments compared their military prowess being the equivalent of a flailing child compared to a pro boxer.
"The best Vengeance is a Life Well-Lived."
Earth in this story is like a teenager growing up wearing all those "cool" stuff and flaunting it then met with a mistake so bad they changed for the better and now in adulthood the child is now an adult, suit and tie, snappy, thats how i saw the earth in this story
a bloodless victory is my most favorite form of success
The acting troop really hit it out of the park this story.
While very subtle the punishment seems very vindictive.
That one had me literally say "WOW" at the end. A really multilayered and deep story. And you just knew from the human ambassadors initial response and proposal that they were being set up hard. You didn't quite know how, but you could sense that big middle finger rising up over the horizon....
That ending! Oh my, that was beautiful!
Bah to the pessimism! It couldn't be War for it would be like cheating a beginner. Humanity had to be the adult in the room because no one else was going to and like that. Reason reigned in the rest without contempt.
Humans...War......Maturity and Reason......that don't sound right!
Idk. Adulthood looks good on Man.
@@zacharyhawley1693 yes
I hate how little people who write these know the species they come from.
@@mikeharris6429 I guess HFY is definitely a blue (marble) pilled view on the direction humanity is heading. While I would like to see more realistic takes especially as I love old cyberpunk, the general optimism of HFY is one of the reasons why I regularly read them as escapism.
@@trevtall1094 Agreed.
Evil has very little long-term longevity. Even the USSR fell eventually.
All governments rise and fall eventually.
Many of the great European powers are only shadows of their former selves, while new powers rise.
Those to will fall, and new will arise.
There is always more standing in the wings as many sing the praises of communism to this day.
@@kerwinbrown4180 And those people are idiots,cause I watched videos of romanians saying how the communist government ruined their country.
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The beginning was almost poetic. Humanity wins by economics.
In short word CAPITALISM
*....Post-scarcity capitalism.
@@skepticalmagos_101 bruh 😂
@@skepticalmagos_101 "Post-scarcity"
Magic. Post-scarcity is magic.
This is just full industrialization with excellent infrastructure management.
@@SoMuchFacepalm Yeah... I've seen star trek. But ppl will still want stuff... like art, experiences, thrills, services and novel items and gadget. Which means a demand driven market... and hence capitalism. Just not the one we see today. 😄
@@skepticalmagos_101 Yup. Gonna need a much bigger population to get anything that looks like star trek.
Thank you for the video.
We weaponize everything. Even the economy.
Economic warfare is so much more civilized.
Economic warfare isn't exactly civilized, just because you aren't ripping someone's body apart with hot lead, doesn't mean you aren't causing suffering.
An economic war of liberation on the other hand, is at least somewhat civilized. You're liberating slaves by improving their lives whilst screwing over their oppressors. In warfare, no matter the type, someone always suffers, it's just a question of trying to limit that suffering to the people who deserve it, as best you can.
Humanity became techno-gods, built a fence around their property like the Star League's frontier barrier from The Last Starfighter, and used the appeal method of the T'au in bringing out better goods to flood the market and make the people want a better life out of serfdom and slavery
The best way to make people change is to convince them to want to change.
@@zacharyhawley1693 Not really, brainwashing and propaganda have a terrible long-term track record. Its much harder to find and present an alternative that is actually better, that people will actually want, but it's much more likely to be successful.
@@SoMuchFacepalm He was saying the alternative you speak of, not of propaganda and brainwashing.
@@johnjohnjohnson7720 "make people change"
"an alternative that is actually better, that people will actually want"
Can you spot the different between these?
@@SoMuchFacepalm Merely a difference in wording.
He said "Convince them they want to change."
Sure, you can do that with Propoganda, but that's ineffective as you pointed out. Giving them an alternative they want is still "convincing them they want to change."
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you have surrounded your name with a foul stench. lock him in the tower of london.
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make him part of the tour.
anguished screams of no.
I love the ending.
thanks for the story and narration
I really like this one. It's much more economically rational. A system built upon coercion is inherently less efficient than one built upon cooperation.
Definitely an optimistic forecast for humans as we still have slavery, company town schemes, and authoritarians.
The free market can price that out of the market eventually, even in this work of fiction it took centuries.
@@SoMuchFacepalmexcept when the free market is undermined by cheap goods made by slave labour.
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Good stuff
Thanks for the story 🙂☺️
What an incredible comedown! Truthfully though, I can't imagine how they made it into space on a slave-based economy. All it would take is for one disgruntled slave in the right position to bide his time to sabotage such efforts.
I almost feel sorry for the guy at the end.
Almost.
FTA!!!
Weaponizing post-scarcity to destroy alien capitalist economies? An interesting approach.
Slave empires aren’t capitalism.
Capitalist? The story sounded like they used a pre-capitalism economy: A slave-serf system.
Ahem, I believe you mean weaponizing capitalism to destroy Mercantile economys?
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I could legit hear Viva La Vida in the last few sentences.
By the wording of the story, I get the feeling that some - if not the majority - of their rivals went willingly. They saw the value of letting slavery and serfage(?) become obsolete. I mean, if the non slavers are out doing you on every front, you might want to reevaluate your system.
It reminds me of how some abolitionists and Underground Railroad stops were slave owners. This was brought up one time in Social Studies when I was a kid.
I honestly don't know if the following story is true, but considering my own family's foray into slave ownership, it's somewhat believable. One classmate claimed that his great great grandfather was released from slavery when an escaped slave decided to stay at his Master's stop, but the Master didn't need another one, so he asked for a volunteer to leave. Apparently, to the amusement of the Master, half his slaves raised their hands, most in all sincerity because, well, SLAVERY. So he let the one with the most marketable talent go. He chose the most marketable one to give him a better chance of survival as a Freed Man. The only real caveat being that he'd take his replacement under his wing and train him for free. The replacement turned out to be a she, and they ended up getting hitched. Though, she remained with the Master until Lincoln's Imancitation Proclamation.
The Master was a Jew, and apparently threw a biblically accurate Jubilee on hearing about the Imancitation Proclamation. He had apparently voted for, and let his sons fight for the Confederacy and the right for each state to decide on if and when they would abolish slavery because of the economic hardship it would bring the states if done too early or abruptly, but had zero problem owning slaves as long as he treated them well.
The Master was, of course, in the minority and was always arguing with his peers about it. Of course, his view was usually dismissed on account of him being a practicing Jew.
It's an ironic and self contradictory view, really. When Israel was following The Law well enough to treat its slave class the way it was supposed to, it would also be following God's laws on generosity, hospitality, and "However, no one among you should become poor, for Jehovah will surely bless you in the land that Jehovah your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance," - Deu 15 v4. Meaning there would be no need for slaves anyway; since most slaves at the time were either more like indentured servants working off debt or conquered. So a practicing Jew or Converted Jew wouldn't have slaves, really.
interesting story, kinda devolves into religious propaganda in the end, in a way that makes me suspect it's made up. but I like it nonetheless.
You really overestimate the impact of religion on people's opinions. Usually people use religion as an excuse to stick to their stance, not to form it.
@@giarnovanzeijl399 Well, it depends on the person. The majority of the time, the ancient Jews were just going through the motions, like most Christians today. But, regardless of the religion the world would be a whole lot better off if people would just live what they claim to believe; with a very few exceptions.
@@taitano12 Very much disagree. Do you know how much fucking torture and kill them commands are in the bible?
Lol a slavery empire reduced to a tourist attraction.
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This is how a fallen empire is formed
I think this is probably a "me problem" but is anyone else bothered by the floating rock and the flying saucer? The way they constantly bob around just bugs me. The swaying is fine it's just the bobbing . . . I'm weird . . . .
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Destroying a slave empire with capitalism.
That ending should be of the British Empire
Why? The Brits ended slavery, the alien empire ran off it.
Guess I'm the first one here
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What humanity is this cos we're vindictive as all get out,lol
We are species that is all things but isn't all things at the same time we are a species which is like an omni tool we are heavily modular we are as if God designed us to live work and manipulate the environment and a whole variety of environment hot cold dry you name it we can adapt to it we are the perfect species to be the guys in the Senate representing other species we are perfectly due to our background due to the way how are different nations and different subcultures of humans and all the other stuff we human beings are like a miniature version of the Galaxy played on a planet that human beings extremely well-equipped to slip into any designated roll possible and since down to a very culture we're used to the most extreme cases of anything that could happen out in the galaxy anything that might happen is going to be something that has already been solved by human beings all we have to do is figure out the advanced math and sciences need to build engines and warp drives and Shields and armor and weapons and maybe a second drive to act that way the ship can move in a different directions while in a fight.
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