Glad this is getting discussed

Post #392,341 by drook 7/25/14 1:13:49 AM Reply	Glad this is getting discussed I've been saying it for years. Star Trek (and other sci fi for decades) provides the model for this. -- Drew
Post #392,343 by pwhysall 7/25/14 3:01:47 AM Reply	How so? The only treatment of a post-scarcity society that even begins to make some kind of internal sense is Banks's Culture universe. Star Trek is communism, anyway.
Post #392,344 by drook 7/25/14 7:55:19 AM Reply	I'm thinking more in terms of media friendliness If you try to talk to the general public about hard sci fi you'll lose 90% of them. But talk about how Star Trek shows a world where production/manufacturing is essentially free and w have to find some other way to organize the economy and you can probably at last get the conversation going. -- Drew
Post #392,346 by pwhysall 7/25/14 8:26:15 AM Reply	Oh sure, I get that But Star Trek doesn't make sense at all. Here's the wonderful post-scarcity Federation! No-one has or needs money! Except the Ferengi and everyone else, of course. The interface between those who have unlimited resources (after all, that's what "post-scarcity" means) and those who don't is just handwaved away. In reality, such an interaction would result in total war.
Post #392,347 by drook 7/25/14 8:43:24 AM Reply	You didn't think the Prime Directive was about philosophy, did you? -- Drew
Post #392,349 by mmoffitt 7/25/14 8:56:05 AM Reply	You're right about Star Trek. That's why it's BETTER.

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