I can’t tell if this is meaningless silliness or if it’s profound wisdom. All I really know is that just because my human brain can’t know which it is doesn’t mean it isn’t one or the other.

Fantastic insight!! Makes perfect sense out of years of confusion. Thank you.

FU was the only mod I played with, and it worked as early as 2018 I think. It was a huge overhaul on massive features and build paths. I suggest a look if you enjoy the vanilla game.

Tons of new features too many to count

Funny that you say that. I opened the comments to mention how the final version never felt right to me. One aspect is that the final door is open from the beginning of the game. In my first (early access) playthroughs, the final door stayed closed until the story opened it.

I even played without frackin universe and it was still open on a new playthrough. I really hope it was my files and not a game change. Frackin universe build paths also got way worse and unnecessarily complicated over time, but that’s a different story.

I have much more good to say than bad about the game, but it felt better when I played back in 2016 for the first time and in 2018 with the mod.

Perhaps I do misunderstand. What do you mean by how the division of labor is used?

My point was that people will do what they want, and if they want to do those jobs now, they would also likely want to do them in this hypothetical situation.

These Individuals may rotate as others are expected to, but they could do that relatively easily in the current system already. High valued education and experience is sought after and the opportunity for them is higher than your everyday person.

People don’t become research scientists to make money, especially after they take on tons of debt that will take decades to pay off. Does more need to be said about their motivations? If you give people what they require, they will do what they want. Many of them want to do specialized jobs because they want to. Just because many will not specialize does not mean that nobody will specialize.

Choice is the point. And some will choose to specialize.