LPI and their RP

[Dusty Lens]

There is absolutely nothing, in fact, to suggest that the LPI traffic in slaves.

Feel free to take a step back and review the fundamentals of the LPI and then apply a model of human trafficking.

- The LPI, at their core, are a for profit police force which maintains a production industry fed by a revolving door labor force composed of the lowest rungs of Liberty's economic class. Persons come in, do their time in social reclamation programs, perhaps working for social credit to pay for rent and basic services and so on.

They've been established as raiding tent cities, gathering vagrants and exploiting impoverished zones in order to keep the machinery turning.

Then they sell their workforce to Malta for a cheap buck.

LOL.

That's my perception of the idea of LPI slavery in a nutshell. You don't pull the cogs out of the machine to melt them down for their iron.

Rogues, misc gangs, etc would be the parties involved in coercing persons into positions of servitude through traditional means in order to profit from the fast turnaround involved in selling persons.

The LPI has an entirely separate market.

Now far be it from me to suggest that there aren't officers on the deck who're involved in such practices. Just as readily as they could be in any manner of nasty business. Life on Houston is likely like Blade Runner but without the noodles.

But it's certainly not how the "LPI" turns a buck. They might be considered slavers by virtue of an economic model which capitalizes upon and maintains an economic system, but they're not slavers in the form of taking people and selling them.

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