So much for Heaven. With racism and extreme xenophobia about, Columbia already felt more like Hell! ZanyDragon (talk) 02:56, November 4, 2013 (UTC)
Not for the people who ran it. Actually it is part of the illogic of the story that if they detested 'the others' so much then why were there any left in the city, their 'heaven' ??? With all the high tech stuff alluded to be in Columbia, they could have had mechanical slaves to do all the work and could be rid of all those people they didnt care for.
The situation just seems a little too contrived Testxyz (talk) 08:28, November 4, 2013 (UTC)
- Cooking, serving, toilet scrubbing...They had some amazing technology, but you need someone to keep a utopia running pretty. Actually they didn't really have technology to replace common laborers (the Automatic Gentleman seems to have never come to fruition).
- Some people just enjoy ruling over people, maybe they just have the "others" there to ensure the elite don't have to work the "lower" jobs. Not everyone is xenophobic (The Montgomery Residence). A lot of them came to Columbia for religious purposes.
- Unownshipper (talk) 02:54, November 5, 2013 (UTC)
- Thats true, some people have the need to have others they see and feel themselves above (and some need some 'others' to point to as an excuse for their own problems/failures). .
- Its too bad they didnt give a hint in the game (as a subplot/issue) that they were working on the equivalent of 'automatic gentlemen' to be servitors (like seeing a few of them around, even if the player didnt encounter them as an opponent). The fear of being 'got rid of' (meaning 'eliminated') might have been a added element for the rebellion in a place as much of a police state as Columbia was.
- Many of the automatic machines were of sufficient sophistication to have made that replacement possible (and they could possibly steal even more technology eventually....) I would have expected that as a goal of the Founders to make Columbia 'pure', and have only people in it who 'deserved' to be in their 'heaven'. Testxyz (talk) 06:25, November 5, 2013 (UTC)