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the cynical side of me liked it. ofc that may not be your kind of humor

that's because a capitalist Utopia is in no way realistic (and acutally self-contradictory). The only future Capitalism offers is a dystopian one (if we even get to have a future, which is not all that likely under current circumstances)

I think the closest we might would be a mixed economy utopia, where capitalism co-exists with things like workers rights and whatnot. Its probably difficult to write a believeable capalist utopia because it requires that the people at the top are all saints.

Although, with the advances in AI, maybe someone could write a story about some megacorp AI meeting everybody's needs. It might be an interesting writing experiment.

There has to be one, but i think most sci-fi authors are left-leaning so their utopias and dystopias both reflect that.

subtle lol

I haven't watched all of the new trek but I feel like they were slowly turning around the anti GMO stuff with Bashir. They highlighted the absurdity of leaving a child permanently disabled when he could become a doctor instead.

I think it depicts a communist future quite well actually. Errors can and always will be made, Administration will always have to be done, it's just how do we go about those things once we achive a communist society? Proper Star Trek explores those questions and ofc the show in it of itself isn't flawless either

you are correct. though the path to that kind of communism leads through the socialist stage of development

The Borg are arguably the most evil force of that universe. What Janeway did is about the only way to convert them back.

Tuvick is a bit more morally ambiguous and a good pick. Either choice would have killed someone, in a sense.

I think a worse one is that time they grew a clone just for their organs. This was Voyager, right? Star Trek do be like that.

remember: Pessimism of the Mind, Optimism of the Will! revolutionary Optimism is hard to upkeep but helps with not falling into despair (I know that all too well unfortunately :/)

what do you even mean? progressive Trekkies are cool and Tankie is just a derogatory word to describe revisionists

Also nothing is black and white and this meme just furthers the polarized belief that other=wrong makes mine right

the so called nordic compromise, is just an implementation of "social" "democracy" and even that has been eroded over the last few decades. It still upkeeps the exploitative nature of capitalism and is largely build on imperialism, racism and oil/fossil fuel money... As such, it still caters to the interests of the rich minority instead of the well-being of humanity at large

Mad Max, but in pyjamas.

Babylon 5.

We already live in a "post-scarcity" world... there is absolutely nothing humans could need that we couldn't grow or produce. All the scarcity you see around you is artificially created and maintained - and that means socialism is far, far from obsolete.

I think it's closer to communism than socialism or post-scarcity. There's no democratic control of the workplace to be seen; everybody just shares everything. But they don't have infinity starships for everyone.

I think the best episode which explores this idea is the DS9 baseball card episode. The card isn't post-scarcity; it's extremely valuable personal property.

There is no such thing as being "too pro-socialism."

Well, reddit was showing signs of going more authoritarian, so the people who aren't into that came here.

@alsaaas @TheTechNerd either we as a society deconstruct capitalism or we as a species do not have a future

Reality has a left-wing bias, my friend

What a load of bollocks.

There's nothing tankie about this. Nobody's celebrating genocide or conquest here.