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oh I know how to make a poll's results look like the letter E watch this
what is the rightmost digit of the number of responses this poll has right now? (it should be visible before you vote.)
0, 1, or 2
3
4 or 5
6
7, 8, or 9
Confused by the numbering choices here
that's the order numbers go in.
but the middle one?
4 and 5 do in fact go between 3 and 6

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My illustrations the most based poem about tigers by Nael, age 6
Every time I read it I feel space inside my chest expand in very *emotion* way.
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Okay, hear me out.
One of the quiet background realities of the Star Wars galaxy is that it is spectacularly bad at labor. Not just ālate-stage capitalismā bad, but structurally, culturally, and institutionally allergic to the idea that workers should have enforceable protections. Youāve got child soldiers, child labor, debt slavery, corporate fiefdoms, and a Republic that can field a galaxy-spanning bureaucracy but somehow never gets around to standardizing āmaybe donāt enslave people.ā The Empire of course doesnāt fix this; it industrializes it.
So in that environment, formal labor law is either nonexistent, unenforced, or actively hostile. Which means if youāre operating in a sector where the state either canāt or wonāt protect you, you get a classic historical pattern: workers build their own rules.
Enter the gray economies.
Groups like the Smugglers' Alliance (Legends) and the Bounty Hunters' Guild (new canon) look, at first glance, like professional associations for criminals. But if you squint at them through a labor history lens, they start to look a lot like early, proto-union structures ā especially the kinds you see in maritime or extralegal industries on Earth.
Think pirate codes (yes actual ones, Pirates of the Caribbean didn't make that up). Think matelotage agreements. Think dockworker brotherhoods that predate formal unions.
Because what do these groups actually do?
They:
set norms for compensation and contracts
regulate competition to prevent destructive undercutting
provide a framework for dispute resolution
establish reputational systems (āyou donāt honor contracts, you donāt get workā)
Thatās industry self-governance in the absence of law.
Take bounty hunting. Without something like the Bounty Hunters' Guild, the field collapses into chaos: clients donāt pay; hunters underbid each other into oblivion; jobs get duplicated, interfered with, or sabotaged. And nobody trusts anybody!
The Guild steps in and says: here are the rules of engagement. Hereās how claims work. Hereās how you get paid. Hereās what happens if you break contract.
Thatās basically a union crossed with a licensing board and a regulatory agency, just without any moral pretense.
Same with the Smugglers' Alliance. Smuggling is inherently risky, decentralized, and dependent on trust networks. If everyone is constantly betraying everyone else, the whole system stops functioning. So instead, you hash out agreed-upon routes and territories, informal protections against betrayal, mechanisms for information sharing, and consequences for breaking the code
Again: not altruism. Stability.
And the reason this emerges specifically in gray/illegal sectors is because they have to. The Core Worlds might pretend they have laws, but those laws donāt meaningfully protect the people actually doing dangerous, itinerant, high-risk work. So the margins of the galaxy ā where enforcement is weakest and risk is highest ā become the places where labor organization evolves first.
Which is very historically grounded.
On Earth, some of the earliest labor protections didnāt come from governments; they came from workers in dangerous, decentralized industriesāsailors, pirates, minersāwho literally wrote their own rules because no one else was going to save them.
Pirate codes, for example, often included:
compensation for injury
shared distribution of loot
limits on captain authority
Which is ⦠shockingly progressive compared to a lot of contemporary working conditions (cough Amazon cough).
So in the galaxy far, far away, you end up with this ironic inversion:
The ālegitimateā systems ā Republic, Empire, megacorporations ā are exploitative, inconsistent, or indifferent.
The āillegitimateā systems ā smugglers, bounty hunters ā are the ones building functional labor frameworks, because they need to survive.
And that feeds back into why the galaxy feels so unstable overall. Thereās no universal baseline of rights. Everything is hyper-local, network-dependent, and contingent on whether youāre inside a system that has rules you can rely on.
If youāre a clone trooper? You are literally property.
If youāre a factory worker on a corporate world? Your protections are whatever your employer feels like offering.
But if youāre a smuggler or a bounty hunter?
You might actually have clearer expectations about your pay, your risks, and your recourse ā because your āunionā is the only thing standing between you and total chaos.
So yeah: the Smugglersā Alliance and the Bounty Huntersā Guild arenāt just flavor. Theyāre a glimpse of what labor organization looks like in a galaxy where the state has fundamentally failed to provide it.
Which is both deeply funny and a little too real.
#you're telling me han solo is a union man? (via @professorsparklepants)
Han Solo look SO MUCH like a union man.
The Eridian science teams try soooo hard to be soooo normal about Grace. "He helped save our entire planet, we cant experiment on him!" "Hes a whole ass intelligent being, the biodome isnt like a zoo enclosure at all we swear." "Rocky might actually kill us if we try and add enrichment things to the biodome just to see what happens. It'll seem like an insult to Grace's intelligence."
Meanwhile Grace is just waiting in anticipation for someone to ask for a chunk of his hair or something. Hes lowkey curious as to what theyd find. Hes fine with being a creature to them its chill he gets it as a fellow intellectual and all around curious guy who insisted on watching Rocky eat.

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