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No, and some difference will always be there. That's healthy - it aspires people to be more. But I'd like it to be more like Star-Trek: people work hard and ach
by tornadoboy55 10y ago
No, and some difference will always be there. That's healthy - it aspires people to be more. But I'd like it to be more like Star-Trek: people work hard and achieve things for the prestige. If you become captain of a star ship, you're admired, and you (for example) still get more pretty ladies fawning after you than the helm officer. And he does so more than a dude who wants to do nothing but play GTA:XXIV on the Holodeck. But that dude can get the same food, education and modes of transport as the captain, if he so desires.
- snrplfth 10y agoGood thing we just invented replicators.
- RodericDay 10y agoMost importantly, the kids of the holodeck videogame player are not condemned by the sins of the father, and the kids of the starship fleet captain don't get to ride the coattails of their father either. Hardass "realists" love modeling the market as anarchic self-interested atomic agents until it comes to giving their own kids a leg-up even if they don't deserve it. Then it's all biology and social psychology.
- gravypod 10y ago> sins of the father, and the kids of the starship fleet captain don't get to ride the coattails of their father either. You need to watch more DS9, Voyager, and TNG.
- macspoofing 10y agoYou think Star Trek is realistic?