Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
To : ARELOR
From : Cougar428
Date : Mon May 19 2025 08:41 am
-=> Quoting Arelor to Cougar428 <=-
Ar> Re: Re: Most memorable modern
Ar> By: Cougar428 to ARELOR on Thu May 15 2025 02:19 pm
> You guys take yourselves to seriously. JFC, it's only entertainment!
>
> Apparently you never relax and watch the show to get away from reality.
> Instead you have to ask why doesn't the ugly guy get the girl.
Ar> I don't invest myself deeply in Star Trek and I don't watch much of
Ar> it, but I hear a lot of people talking about so-called post-scarcity
Ar> economies and the ST series pops up a lot with those. If the subject
Ar> of post-scarcity economy pops up it is nearly unavoidable to dodge ST
Ar> these days.
Ar> The fun part is that the the first time I heard from some
Ar> entertainment outlet that scarceless economies would still have poor
Ar> people, it was from Enemy at the Gates, in which a Soviet officer
Ar> argued no matter how advanced a Soviet society became, there would
Ar> always be somebody who didn't get the girl he wanted and thus he would
Ar> be poor in comparison to others.
Apologies, I'm not well educated on 'post scarcity economy'. Sadly this
is the first time I've heard the term. So you kind of lost me here. I
think I may have been watching Star Trek when this was discussed and
missed the idea altogether.
Have a great day!
... I didn't know it was impossible when I did it.
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