Related to the Francophone African solar system

[james_davis_nicoll]

If it turns out that the appropriate model for people in space is something like a highly automated mining camp (Rather than, oh, O'Neill's California Suburbs innnnnn Space), then if there are Canadians up there, I bet that they won't be from the relatively prosperous parts of Canada. Ontarians will be too smugly comfortable, Albertans will still be working through their sea of oil and nobody from BC will be able to pass the drug test. No, the planets might belong to the groups known for migrating to places that can offer them jobs, the Newfoundlanders and the Maritimers.

I thought of this while watching Stand Up in Kandahar last week, when one of the Newfoundlander comics made a joke that they'd go anywhere for work. "Anywhere" covers a lot of territory.

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Re: There's room for a Newfoundlander dishwasher.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

I mentally associate 'dishwasher' with 'collegiate underemployment', which I suppose dates me.