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Choose Wisely (lemmy.ml)
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[-] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 day ago

I think too many people assume they would be the next Immortan Joe.

[-] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

Capitalism goes vroom vroom, capitalism wins

(Not really tho)

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 day ago

I chose fully automated luxury gay space communism please!!!

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

Choose Wesley

[-] desktop_user 2 points 1 day ago

why can't we have a nice dystopian cyberpunk future like in alita battle angel.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

I would make the argument that even under perfectly executed communism space travel is unlikely to end up being the focus

[-] b161 5 points 22 hours ago

Not at first. The first tasks would be making sure all are housed, fed, and can lead decent lives where work is meaningful and necessary.

But even while that’s going on we would have a great number of people who would be better off doing minimum work and pursuing other interests. Much of the “work” under capitalism is just detrimental to ourselves and our environment.

Space travel would become meaningful and achievable again as it would not need to find a reason to be profitable. We would free to combine our global resources, to share technology and pursue space travel for the simple pursuits of exploration and survival.

It would actually inspire many people to pursue and take an interest in Space travel when they’re not forced to live as slaves doing meaningless jobs building plastic trinkets or figuring out how to get money out of people on mindless phone games.

And the goal would not just be for some competing companies to stick flags on rocks or mine asteroids to make more useless trinkets.

So I think it would become a great focus as we’d no longer be toiling just to live another day and would be asking greater questions about our place in the universe.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Funnily enough, it was not a focus for the United Federation of Planets, seeing as having over 100 major inhabited worlds the number of colonies was relatively small and the Starfleet numbers and ships were very small.

We just see the show's title and that is is always from the perspective of Starfleet members.

It would be assuming we do reach post scarcity for all essential goods. There's more than enough bored people right now that would throw away the rest of their lifespan for a few months in space to fill a intra galactic space exploration organization; give those bored people all the free education they can handle and you have a successful star fleet.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

I always felt like I was born too early for Starfleet.

I seriously would offer my life to this end; exploring space like Archer might have done.

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But then you wisely decided to shut your dirty mouth.

Edit: /jk

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

How do you see something like that and your first thought is to respond with hostility

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

I apologise for not including a tone indicator, I do try but I keep thinking I'm more obvious than I am. It was genuinely meant as a joke, as in "no, lalalala, go away, I don't want to hear it".

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 23 hours ago

Ah gotcha, difficult to tell over text and a lot of people here would genuinely respond like that unprovoked

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