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  • (Score: 2) by zocalo on Thursday January 02 2020, @09:13AM

    by zocalo (302) on Thursday January 02 2020, @09:13AM (#938534)
    Same here. It's generally Utopian and statistically therefore more likely to be a better place to live, given that the poll just says you get to live there rather than pick who you want to be - e.g., you're probably going to be one of the 99% struggling to make your way up the ladder and making the best of it.

    That said, depending on the timeframe and circumstances, Star Wars is a much more interesting place to live with a far more plausible variety of races and locales, so I'd be heavily tempted to roll the dice. Also, other than a few exceptional races, Trek civilisations are not even Kardashev Type 1 yet, where as the main Star Wars civilisation arguably attains Type 1 by ANH and is undeniably Type 2 by the TFA, so despite the retro UI designs it's also much easier to get around and see some of it. A lifetime to get halfway across the galaxy in warp (barring any lucky wormholes, etc.) vs. a quick zip through hyperspace? Yeah, it might suffer from the same kind of Meritocracy issues you mention for our world, but it's not a hard choice if you want to boldly go and see somethinng of what's out there, is it?
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