IF we ever want to jump up the Kardashev scale, we'll need our own answer to the Dark Forest hypothesis irt the drake equation. For that, we'll need to be able to simulate how different ideologies and patterns of development lead to a singularity. For that we'll need everyone.
Which means that even communists will be valuable in the future, and the concept of a basilisk that punishes the non-contributing is shortsighted as it is presently formulated.