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human
[Firefly]How in the hell do the people of Earth have the resources to evacuate 250 million people on generation ships and bring with them enough resources and tech to colonize can terraform dozens of worlds and even turn gas giants in the stars, but still have resource scarcity problems?

The amount of resources needed to get 250 million people into space is not impossible, it is just ludicrous. Keep in mind that these people were not frozen but put on generation ships that took generations to reach their destination, that is a massive material investment. The reason we are told this happened was because the Earth system was running out of resources.


I... beg your pardon? What? How!? With that sort of technology it should have been able to directly mine the deep mantle and cores of the planets.  Apparently other planets in the solar system were not terraformed but that does not make sense, wouldn't those have been the first terraforming targets?

Something about the story does not make any sense, can anyone clear it up?  The only conclusion I can draw is that the story about the reason for leaving the Earth is not true. resource scarcity does not make any sense given what we know about the circumstances and technology.
gpt
Resource scarcity was the excuse given (likely true that the earth was used up, bit mining other planets or asteroids/comets would have been easy at that tech level).

But the system was designed from the get go to give the new combination China/US government a perminants serf class who didn't have the resources required to rebel, and who could just be exploited for resources basically forever.

The core world's have it great, they get an endless inflow of cheap resource/servants etc from the non-core world's, who don't have the ability to fight back.