Which part, the Manna part or the Australia Project part? The latter is sort of the 'Star Trek Society' that has a number of advantages. As written the next stage would be for Australia to dominate the world of course :-)

But the thing that I found interesting, both in the story and in real life, is that the story's author has his characters as 'worker bees' with not thought to living their lives, and then switching over to living full lives. If you subscribe to that philosophy, then nobody would ever be 'useless' for more than about 8 years since you could pretty much learn everything from high school through a masters degree in some subject in that time if you dedicated your time to it, and assuming like the story author did, that these people didn't have to do anything to maintain their lives (food, shelter, clothing).

The difference between people who are naturally curious, and the people who aren't, is where I am most intrigued. When do people switch over to being victims? And what keeps them in that mindset?

Thanks for the link, it was an interesting read.