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Ive never seen Star Trek, but lets say you had an infinite food machine. The machine would have limited throughput, and it would require resources to distrib
by yadaeno 3y ago
Ive never seen Star Trek, but lets say you had an infinite food machine. The machine would have limited throughput, and it would require resources to distribute the food.
These are both problems that capitalism solves in a fair and efficient way. I really don’t see how the “capitalism bad” is a satisfying conclusion to draw. The fact that we would use capitalism to distribute the resources is not an indictment of our social values, since capitalism is still the most efficient solution even in the toy example.
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- hayst4ck 3y agoIf you are any kind of nerd I recommend watching it. It shows an optimistic view of the future. In many ways it's the anti-cyberpunk. Steve Jobs famously said "give me star trek" when telling his engineers what he wanted from iPhones. Star Trek has had a deep influence on many engineers and on science fiction. When people talk about Star Trek, they are referring mainly to "Star Trek: The Next Generation." "The Inner Light" is a highly regarded episode. "The Measure of a Man" is a high quality philosophical episode. Given you haven't seen it, your criticism of McFarlane doesn't make any sense. You are trying to impart a practical analysis of a philosophical question and in the context of Star Trek, I think it denies what Star Trek asks you to imagine.