• flashgnash@lemm.ee
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    20 days ago

    I would make the argument that even under perfectly executed communism space travel is unlikely to end up being the focus

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        20 days ago

        How do you see something like that and your first thought is to respond with hostility

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          20 days ago

          I apologise for not including a tone indicator, I do try but I keep thinking I’m more obvious than I am. It was genuinely meant as a joke, as in “no, lalalala, go away, I don’t want to hear it”.

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            20 days ago

            Ah gotcha, difficult to tell over text and a lot of people here would genuinely respond like that unprovoked

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      20 days ago

      It would be assuming we do reach post scarcity for all essential goods. There’s more than enough bored people right now that would throw away the rest of their lifespan for a few months in space to fill a intra galactic space exploration organization; give those bored people all the free education they can handle and you have a successful star fleet.

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      20 days ago

      Funnily enough, it was not a focus for the United Federation of Planets, seeing as having over 100 major inhabited worlds the number of colonies was relatively small and the Starfleet numbers and ships were very small.

      We just see the show’s title and that is is always from the perspective of Starfleet members.