As it turned out, when I brought this up with my temporary teacher today, it seemed to have taught him something else entirely.
Do you know what it would be like if a planet with intelligent life, which has yet to be discovered, were found by space pirates?
"What?"
"Those space pirates would assess how this planet could bring them the greatest profit, whether it was population or resources."
If resources are scarce and all they have is population, they will abduct all the people on the planet and sell them to planetary owners who dislike robots and prefer human labor.
If it's a resource-based economy, they might even massacre the entire population, leaving only mining robots.
"Why not..." Upon hearing this, Qiao Xiyu couldn't wait to ask why they couldn't sell those people, seize the planet's resources, and make a profit. To this, Mo Wenshu just sneered.
He then answered the other person's question: "You think that in this era, there are no slaves anymore, and even the imperial nobles are explicitly forbidden from privately keeping slaves. Do you think these people who associate with space pirates and buy and sell people are innocent characters?"
"If space pirates occupy a resource-rich planet and those people find out, how long do you think they can hold onto it?"
Mo Wenshu's meaning is very simple.
For the sake of insurance, space pirates will always choose between demographic dividend and resource dividend.
His home planet, once a place of thriving agriculture and animal husbandry and beautiful scenery, is actually not particularly outstanding in either of these aspects.
Unlike the ancient Blue Star people, they were not lucky enough to have undergone the most basic genetic upgrades by the space pirates.
The people of their planet were too physically capable to withstand the cosmic rays that left the planet's atmosphere. By the time the space pirates realized what was happening, only a handful of slaves remained of the starship merchant guild that had been captured.
He and Yan Hui were among them.
He watched helplessly as his loved ones died before his eyes, their faces contorted in agony...
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