• explodicle@local106.com
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    1 year ago

    I think it’s closer to communism than socialism or post-scarcity. There’s no democratic control of the workplace to be seen; everybody just shares everything. But they don’t have infinity starships for everyone.

    I think the best episode which explores this idea is the DS9 baseball card episode. The card isn’t post-scarcity; it’s extremely valuable personal property.

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      1 year ago

      They don’t have infinite starships because they don’t have infinite energy and raw materials. What they do have is effectively infinite labor, since they can trivially make just about anything (with a few exceptions, like latinum) out of whatever resources are on hand.

      I didn’t see the episode you mentioned, so I can’t comment on it.