The Optimism of Technological Progress

Dreams were dreams because they could be imagined by anyone.

Dreams were unconstrained to the limitations imposed by reality.

Dreams could rarely be fulfilled because those who imagined them lacked the ability to realize their unrealistic fantasies.

What Ves had just done was give his audience a harsh reminder that just because they could, did not necessarily mean they should.

Anyone with a basic grasp of economics and the dire state of red humanity would know that it was impossible for everyone to instantly quit their current jobs en masse and become Carmine mech pilots the next day.

The laws of supply and demands did not magically disappear due to the invention of the Carmine System.

The more people wanted to pilot a Carmine mechs, the more barriers they would have to overcome.