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3/ Banks knew humans well enough to realize that human nature would never allow utopia, so he created benevolent gods to force a utopia on us.
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5/ yeah, positional goods are my biggest complaint re "post scarcity". "Oh, you think that Star Trek is a post-scarcity society? So ... how does one get to captain a star ship?" Social status is finite and scarce.
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Everyone on the Enterprise bridge crew is from Earth. Hundreds of planets from which to recruit, but the officers are always from Earth. "Provincials are fairly brave and some of them are quite bright. They make good crew when led by Earth officers."
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