We are post scarcity. From a technology viewpoint, it would be trivially easy to produce enough to give everybody a good standard of life. The only obstacles are political.
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"It's not enough to succeed, others must fail"
A true victory is to make your enemy see they were wrong to oppose you in the first place. To force them to acknowledge your greatness.
And hear the lamentations of their women...
The Federation manages everything it does without being a post-scarcity economy too. Dilithium is a scarce resource and they need it to power their replicators.
I’ve never really thought of it like that before. Thanks for changing my perspective on the fed.
Afaik from st 4 on they were able to recrystalize the dilithium
We're just waiting for replicators.
Replicators we want:
Replicators we are on track to get:
I just pretend Janeway uses not a replicator but a mini transporter and everytime the black coffee appears, Neelix in his quarters screams: Not again, captain!
We don’t need them to start making a better world. The federation didn’t have them in the beginning either.
If we're going to follow the same path, they did in fact have a massive global war that wiped a good chunk of the world population.
I'd say we're on track! 😀
We didn't build a ghetto in downtown San Francisco, but we did build concentration camps, so we should be seeing some version of the Bell Riots any day now 🤞
Be the change you want to see in the world, and get a 3D printer.
I’d settle for holosluts.
... Barclay?
Tell that to the Ferengi...
No ism works. That's why everyone isn't using one system.
Okay, start the downvotes.
Sounds like you favor pluralism.
You're wrong, my ism works, and I will threaten and insult you until you admit it!
We do need to change to be post-scarcity, though.
says the future where colonist land is given away to appease monsters.
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