There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Alsephina

@[email protected]

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

Alsephina , to asklemmy in Dear Lemmy, **why** Star Trek??

I started watching it recently because of Lemmy lol. Pretty good, though I haven’t gotten to the apparently best parts yet.

Alsephina , to asklemmy in Dear Lemmy, **why** Star Trek??

Popular, geeky, and leftist. That last one likely resonates with a large part of the communist/socialist community we have here on Lemmy.

It certainly does for Lemmy dev Dessalines, seeing how they’re responding on this thread too.

Alsephina , (edited ) to asklemmy in Dear Lemmy, **why** Star Trek??

Like I said, just different ways of interpreting the definitions.

The wiki definition “people can easily have their basic survival needs met” is passive, which could mean either

  • your definition of the people themselves being able to “go get those basic needs fulfilled”, or just
  • the world having more than enough resources and the technology to easily meet everyone’s basic needs.

The latter is how I interpreted it. And that’s our world, just hindered by our current political/economic system of capitalism.

Alsephina , to asklemmy in Dear Lemmy, **why** Star Trek??

That’s just one definition, no? You could interpret this part of the wiki like I did for example

Post-scarcity does not mean that scarcity has been eliminated for all goods and services but that all people can easily have their basic survival needs met

and conclude that we’re already in that world, like Star Trek is.

Alsephina , (edited ) to asklemmy in Dear Lemmy, **why** Star Trek??

Our world is already post scarcity too for basic needs like food and housing. We’re just terrible at actually getting them to people since most countries are still capitalist, so they prioritize capital/profit over human lives and rely on what’s basically slave labour from less developed nations to make the ruling class richer.

Alsephina , to asklemmy in Dear Lemmy, **why** Star Trek??

Alot of them are living in an empire they’ve been conditioned to be okay with after all.

iirc George Lucas himself said that Star Wars is an allegory for the Vietnamese (Rebel Alliance) resisting American imperialism (Galactic Empire)

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •