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Not anymore. That was one of the major changes to the meta of min max builds that came with 3.0. The slaver technocracy with the shattered ring origin, for example, is a lot worse than it used to be in 2.8. As a rule of thumb from now on, the bonuses to specific strata of pops (eg specialists) applies to that strata regardless of living standards and pop freedom.