I too like the idea of magichttps://twitter.com/garethlpowell/status/1170775084291805184 …
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2/ At least Iain Banks explained that the only way you get a post scarcity culture is to create a magical overseer class that holds all the power, makes all the decisions, and prevents any human disagreements from resulting in hurt feelings, inequality, slavery, or genocide.
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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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Picard is the only non-simulated person on the show.
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would you believe I was just about to say literally exactly that of course you would
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