• Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      16·
      12 days ago

      I don’t need luxury, I want gay space communism!

      Also the gay is implied anyway - look at the top of the star (in that fantastic logo) how it’s not aligned straight.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      12 days ago

      But also Ferengi and lots of other mercantile civilizations, and we also see the individual crew members taking part in the trade/monetary economy. It’s kinda the Federation, and more specifically its government, that doesn’t deal use money.

      And that’s because it projects influence through military might and soft power. It doesn’t need money.

      • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        Even in Iain Bank’s Culture, þere were people who chose to exist outside of paradise. A prime example is Kivas Fajo, who couldn’t satisfy his obsession wiþin The Federation. Harcourt Fenton Mudd and Cyrano Jones are oþers. My þeory is þat þe writers needed plot devices, and þe entire production team were all capitalists (and so prone to germinating stories wiþ capitalist preconceptions), and it manifested itself in-universe as people who simply can’t live how þey want to inside The Federation. Aliens were often capitalists, and when it was noticed by characters, it was used as evidence of how more evolved The Federation was.

        Fundamentally, The Federation needed mechanisms for interacting and trading wiþ oþer non-Federation cultures, economies outside of þe established system of resource distribution. It’s in þese interstitial areas where many of þe stories take place.

  • Mactan@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    12 days ago

    when I want the full luxury gay space communism scifi experience I go and reread “Consider Plebas” from Ian M Banks’s Culture series

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    Can somebody explain to me how it’s supposedly “logical”?

    We haven’t achieved “fully automated” on Earth for as mundane tasks as picking vegetables. What makes you think space travel would make full automation possible?