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Dunno what kind of economic model we’d need if we had star trek -level replication technology.
Post-scarcity society, the only currency would be good vibes my dude.
We could just explore, try to learn new interesting things, and have campy holodeck adventures with Mark Twain.
I don’t think the current rich people would approve. But screw’em if we have replicators
The economy would crash and millions of people would starve. I wish I were kidding. We humans are really fucking dumb.
I always thought the “you wouldn’t download a car” ads were based on an assumption that star trek replicator technology would be evil (with the public argument that it would put people out of jobs and the real reason being it would be harder to base a wealth-based hierarchy and system of middlemen on).
The original ad was “you wouldn’t steal a car,” literally claiming that downloading a movie is morally equivalent to carjacking.
From the people who brought us private sex islands, in both underage and cult varieties. Fucking hate Hollywood dictating morality to everyone else.
Ah, yeah, it might have been the implication that they were equivalent that got me thinking that rather than them using “download” instead of “steal”.
They also lost me with the sappy ads about the crews that don’t make millions from the movies, as if the studios would even be able to produce movies without paying crews (and weren’t already doing everything they could to reduce that expense).
Especially when I knew that it was the studios’ fault theatres had to gouge people on snacks because those greedy fucks wanted all of the ticket sales money, despite theatres requiring money to run and maintain.
And don’t get me started on Hollywood accounting and how it was used to claim Return of the Jedi made 0 profit to fuck over the actor behind one of the most iconic roles in film (who wanted royalties instead of a set pay but made the mistake of believing they were negotiating with him in good faith and weren’t just fucking vultures).
At this rate, replicators will be in a subscription model.
Need? None, really. It’s like when you get to the North Pole, the entire concept of “north” breaks down. It would be the same with post-scarcity. Or should be, except…
Have? Completely up to the whims of whoever controls the technology. Which… takes a look at the planet will be whoever is left standing once the nut jobs wipe out everyone that they hate. “Computer, ICBM, nuclear.”
Fuck capitalism
Picked up the Bluray series off eBay. Physical media seems like the way to go, to really own anything
… Ripped to a media server. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I can be arsed to stand up and put media into a machine anymore.
Physical media seems like the way to go, to really own anything
That or sailing the digital sea, which ig you could consider a bunch of DRM-free files on a drive you own to still be “physical media”
Do you really think the automation governments use don’t understand euphemism. Just say piracy.
Counterpoint: Who cares, sailing the digital sea sounds cooler.
Do you really think people say things like sailing the digital sea to avoid persecution? Just say whatever sounds cool to you
Same. Bummed that we’ll probably never get remasters of DS9 and Voyager.
There is a nice DS9 upscaling project that is very good (not as good as a proper remaster, but still impressive).
https://ds9redefined.wordpress.com/videos/
They only provide download instructions (sftp) via discord, unfortunately. (https://discord.gg/qTgXcG9T). It’s very large (300+ GB for the series).
They are working on Voyager now.
Iirc, the studio(s) likely wouldn’t be able to do much better for Voyager as they didn’t record Voyager onto film like the others. They cheaped out and recorded direct to VHS
Ahoy
Arrr, matey!
The federation is like living at your parent’s house. Things are free under their roof, but if you want to drink with Quark, you’re going to have to trade your star fleet allowance for latinum.
The real problem is Paramount+ won’t accept any of my worthless gold.
Press it with latinum, hyu-mon.
You got this upside-down, friend.
They’re pressed with one another, it says it’s suspended in the structure of the gold.
I’m seeing it like a ruby set in silver, the silver makes it jewelry/useful but the ruby gives it value.
Fair. 🙂
I’m pretty sure by the end, even Roddenberry had come to accept that humans will never be so selfless as a species and the Starfleet he dreamt of could never exist. That’s why his later stuff was more bleak. There’s just absolutely no way that the money free world they describe is good for everyone
There’s just absolutely no way that the money free world they describe is good for everyone.
Can you elaborate, please? In a hypothetical future where money doesn’t exist and technology has granted everyone the means and freedom to pursue their own interests (as long as those interests aren’t harmful to others, of course), I’m having difficulty understanding why that wouldn’t be amazing. Maybe not perfect, but vastly improved over what we’re stuck with now.
I believe there is a way. Nanotechnology helped along by artificial intelligence could conceivably bring material abundance to everyone. This would be a world dramatically reshaped. Humanity might not even qualify as the same species anymore.
Some people actually think that such a future is an inevitability; that it can’t be stopped. Short of everybody dying in a fire of course.
My cynical perspective is that people will monetise that nanotechnology before long
What makes you think the powers that be would make this accessible to the poor?
There has never been a case where governments are able to hide technology from the people for more than a decade at a time in modern history. It might start out expensive, innovations usually do, but over time the expense drops, someone makes a quick buck selling to the masses, and all of a sudden money is meaningless.
Worst case scenario you may have to use your second amendment rights to acquire the technology for the masses, which is what it was designed for.
I think the human race dying before we reach those dreams is far more likely
No sense worrying about it then. I know I don’t.
Does Paramount have ads?
#kodi_life
Not as invasive as others for now, but yeah.
Have it included with Walmart+ and so far everything I’ve watched has had one 30 second ad at the beginning and I can return anytime without having to watch anymore.
Walmart+ ?? Is that a joke?
We found the subscriber.
That’s my current setup but through the Kodi addon so I haven’t seen one yet
How’s your Burger King?
Stremio + torrentio + real-debrid friends.
Unfortunately only season one of Voyager is available. I didn’t realize that until I finished the first season.
?What source are you using? I’m using real-debrid. Although it has been a few months since I checked.
Hey, fuck this meme and the starship it rode in on.
No bourgeois propaganda on swatchseries.is (once you’ve developed to reflex to close the adds directly)
Ah yes, because in capitalism, Captains actually own their own ships and you don’t need to pay anyone to actually build it! Just use
slavesenthusiastic volunteers!Nobody said any of that lol
