As the actual article points out, the idea of the Star Trek episode was to have the efficient economy minus the genocide, which I think points out that to at le

As the actual article points out, the idea of the Star Trek episode was to have the efficient economy minus the genocide, which I think points out that to at least some people the ideas are not inextricably linked. I don't think most people who say that they had a good economy are consciously also thinking "because they were so good at murder".