Interesting essay written by Greece’s former finance minister and leftist economist.
Love this about star trek, its anti black mirror, miss hopeful scifi
That’s why I couldn’t get into a lot of the newer Trek stuff. Older stuff felt aspirational, but the newer stuff did not.
Discovery had good moments but I really had to look past a lot, I do kind of like strange new worlds. The movies were definitely not hopeful but at least a fun watch for the action.
I really enjoyed final space, more star trek adjacent, suprisngly great, my roommate walked by sat down and watched multiple episodes with no background because the episode that was on was so good.
Agreed that hope is Defiant (pun intended), but disagree with assertion that replicators are the backbone of post-scarcity (yes I know it’s a work of fiction by many writers, but hear me out).
Under capitalism the invention of replicators would just lead to the introduction of artificial scarcity, in order to maintain the current power structures. We know this because everywhere in the world already exists the technology for all to have plenty, yet somehow these obvious needs aren’t met.
In a nutshell: tech won’t save us.
Old trek. Not new trek. Those lessons are mostly gone from the newer series and replaced with pew pew and explosions.
