What to do with fired employees?

On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 03:14 PM, victoriatangoman wrote:

> What happens to the employee when there is no longer an opportunity
> to earn a livelihood at their chosen career? If they are a citizen
> of the habitat, does the choice become one of taking any job
> available or leaving the habitat for earth? Who pays for departure?
>
What happens now on Earth? Same answer.

> For that matter, what do we do with people who don't like living up
> there and want to leave?

If they want to leave, then I suggest they do so. For the first few
habitats, they will probably get a paid, one-way ticket to Earth. After
that, people will probably have to figure out how to move themselves,
just like they do on Earth today.

The materials in one asteroid (the largest ) are sufficient to make
orbital space colonies with ~500 times the surface area of the Earth in
usable real estate. See http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/
for details.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html