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Slaves? Seriously?

Discussion in 'Star Wars TV- Completed Shows' started by Why_So_Serious, May 1, 2013.

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  1. Narutakikun

    Narutakikun Jedi Knight star 4

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    Every technology starts out as expensive and rare and ends up cheap and plentiful. In 1985, only one in 10,000 people had a cell phone - and that was in the United States. Today there are six billion individual cell phone subscriptions on a planet that has seven billion humans on it - which, when you consider that a certain number of that seven billion are under ten years old, are unable to use one because of a disability, or simply don't want one, means that cell phones are essentially universal. Other than a relative few people who live in genuine starvation-level poverty or in one of the handful of remaining dismal Marxist throwback states like Cuba or North Korea where they can't get one, everybody who wants and can use a cell phone has one.

    Droids seem a lot like that in the GFFA. Miraculous to us, but commonplace and dirt cheap to the people there.
     
  2. iPodwithnomusic

    iPodwithnomusic Jedi Master star 3

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    1. Valid Point

    2. The Jedi also live in a massive temple, a dime to them is likely a lot more than a dime to most people

    3. They have support from the Banking Clan, and many other large companies
     
  3. Seerow

    Seerow Manager Emeritus star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    I figure from the example in TPM that building a droid is like building a desktop tower in the GFFA, they may even come in barebones. Cheap however does not always equate to good. A computer happens to be one of those things you can build with a unreal variety of parts which can be dirt cheap and still be a reliable machine. Processors come in countless models and cheap memory sticks often perform as well as the best name brands like Crucial.
     
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