Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
To : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Boraxman
Date : Sun May 11 2025 11:10 pm
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Da> Star Trek is fully automated, luxury, gay, space-communism.
Bo> I understand the difference between fantasy and reality.
pF> They never really show what it's like to be a civilian in a Star Trek
pF> universe. Some books discuss it, but they're not canon. Imagine a world
pF> where power no longer requires the exploitation of resources or people
pF> - you could set up a matter/antimatter reactor and power a city without
pF> waste products. How would that change economies when there's no more
pF> scarcity? Want a diamond? With enough energy, you could turn charcoal
pF> briquets into a necklace. Need to create fresh water? Done, no more
pF> territorial conflicts over a brackish river border. Food? Done. take a
pF> CHON matrix and turn it into whatever food you want.
pF> The part they do talk about in Star Trek is that abandoning
pF> accumulating wealth allows people to free their time to work for the
pF> betterment of mankind.
That was the future promised to us with the invention of computers. I
remember reading in books about the future (old books from like the
60s or 70s), that we'd go to a three day workweek. Well, I'm
certaintly working long hours in front of a computer! Those shorter
work weeks never came.
I'd love to think that technology can free us from drudgery, but so
far, the track record is poor. We're finding more crap to do.
I will have to read David Graebers book, Bulls^%t Jobs, where he says
the system is designed to produce pointless work to keep us busy, in
debt, and therefore in control. I think he is probably right. With
Star Trek technology, they'll find more beaurocracy for us. They'll
make sure we still remain in debt. People with free time, and no
threat of job loss with spark a revolution, and that won't be
permitted to occur..
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