I think I might know what the answer to the Fermi Paradox is.<br><br>I was talking last night to a friend from high school who is Native American. He was saying that he had an argument with another friend, because he was against UBI on account of what "free stuff" had done to the Native community.<br><br>It does seem like if people grow to have things too easily, it might have a Mouse Utopia kind of effect. For example there were millions of Romans living a life of leisure of the backs of slaves, but they supposedly all became deviant and slovenly and a few centuries later were only a percentage of a percentage of a percentage of their former population.<br><br>What if there is an optimal "load" or resistance that life needs. If it's too brutal you may be grounded out, but if it's too easy we become too weak to function anymore?