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Fascists love Star Wars. Even though the whole point of Star Wars is that fascists suck, and that the universe would be better without them.
Billionaires love Star Trek. Even though the whole point of Star Trek is that billionaires suck, and that the universe would be better off without them, and that once we get universal basic income and solve SF homelessness, and end the very concept of billionaire, humanity will usher in a real age of technological advancement.
@kboyd@phpc.social@mekkaokereke Jeff Bezos loves The Expanse.
A messed up future where billionaires play with entire settled worlds as though they are meaningless toys.
Where even the Secretary General of Earth is an underdog in the fight against their machinations.
I don't think it's a messed up future; I think it's a plausible future. If it becomes economical enough to operate in space like that with humans and have an entire industry devoted to dangerous asteroid mining jobs which also destroy your health as a side effect we will have the poorest people doing those jobs. That's how our lives work today.
@feld @mekkaokereke that's why I said it was messed up. It's a completely plausible translation of our current status quo to several hundred years in the future. From a star trek perspective, that's messed up.
Especially because of the Company Town concept being adapted to space.
Rather than taking star trek's hopeful-utopia approach, The Expanse inspires hope from the grass roots. Earthers, Belters, and Martians coming together to intentionally make the world a better place.
(Except Duarte.)
