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Space operas are usually thinly disguised metaphor for some mix of contemporary and historically/ideologically interesting societies, but looking at Web3 stuff, strikes me that radically decentralized societies are probably the analytically *correct* solution
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Given typical space-sf tech premises (the big ones — FTL travel, force fields, robots, cloning, extreme longevity) most societies don’t actually map very well. Galactic empires, republics, federations… none of these actually make much sense.
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The problem is meaningful commerce over intergalactic distances. Made-up commodities like kyrt, spice, or asteroid minerals make no sense. And without a premise for commerce, most larger scale political structures have no raison d’etre. Null hypothesis — decentralized.
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