Star Trek was the final frontier of communist propaganda. That it has so rarely been criticized as such is a sign of how far the rot went.
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Replying to @Outsideness @octal
tbf "replicators" kind of kill the scarcity problem that money solves.
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which is also why they were a terrible plot device
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I mean, replicators don't solve base currencies: mass/energy and time/computation
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They do on Cathedral TV.
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Replying to @Outsideness @orthonormalist and
Don't recall original series dealing much with society at all, just naval adventures / utopian gunboat diplomacy. ST:TNG went full commie.
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Replying to @mr_archenemy @orthonormalist and
Gunboat diplomacy + the "Prime Directive" -- predicts US global collapse very reliably.
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Replying to @Outsideness @orthonormalist and
It's actually very Cathedral-ish. "We know we should leave people alone, but we're so damn morally superior we always break our own rules."
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