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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Tuesday December 31 2019, @05:42PM (1 child)

    by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday December 31 2019, @05:42PM (#937923)

    I mean, I don't think Star Trek is necessarily achievable, but by the rules of their universe they have:
    - The replicator, which eliminates the "Why am I paying for someone else's crap?" problem.
    - The holodeck, which eliminates the "I'm bored" problem.
    - More energy than they need to fully meet the needs of humanity.
    - Colonizing efforts for the people who crave adventure and excitement in their lives.
    - Scientific research, exploration, and such for those who want to do that.
    - A very active arts and cultural scene.
    - Wineries and other low-tech agricultural life for those who want to do that.

    That seems like a pretty nice setup to me. You can be some nobody schlub playing the holo-equivalent of WoW all day, and live and die totally unnotably. Or you can try to achieve as much as you can in whatever field you feel you're talented in.

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  • (Score: 2) by meustrus on Friday January 10 2020, @05:39PM

    by meustrus (4961) on Friday January 10 2020, @05:39PM (#941968)

    This. Star Trek posits technological solutions to all of our political problems. The politics of the Federation is just a way to equitably manage their abundance of free energy and technology. Since it's all essentially free, there's essentially no reason for people to be worried about all the "welfare" and "entitlements" everybody else is getting.

    Star Trek is future Sweden, except if Sweden was rich enough to also provide their socialist state to the rest of the world, even all those "shithole countries" people seem to be so worried about.

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