What alternative to capitalism are you implying would be better? If you have a viable alternative, just do it yourself. (I’m not saying all by yourself, team up with others to make it happen.)
I’m not being sarcastic, I’m genuinely interested in what you believe would get us from here to a Startrek-like economic system.
Startrek is amazingly devoid of status conflicts. Everybody takes for granted the the BigCaptain is BigCaptain for life and that the SeniorOfficers are SeniorOfficers for life. The crew is content to work routine boring jobs for years on end with exceedingly rare promotions (where to promote to other than a new ship?). Even in a society of small scale material affluence, there are scarce coveted goods, for example, being the captain of a starship.
That borrows heavily from the idea of just how navies works though, yeah? In a submarine, you don't wanna do a stupid. I bet you could take the script for the Hunt for Red October and make it a TNG three parter and barely anyone would notice.
Outside of the fancy starships, it does seem like it's more business as usual when it comes to the failings of people and their better wants and desires. How many plots lines dealt with trade disputes or colonies that need to do something (like leave) but don't wanna, etc.
> I’m not being sarcastic, I’m genuinely interested in what you believe would get us from here to a Startrek-like economic system.
There's gotta be fanfiction where everyone actual is a cyborg, it's only Data that's cognizant of that fact, which oddly makes him more human that everyone else.
So that's my answer: get rid of the humans.
I would also say, "let's try Anarchism" but starships are anything but lacking hierarchy. They're little benevolent fascist city-states. But Fascism isn't popular with everyone it seems.
Which I see as a problem, as world powers are very distinct, seemingly have a hard time when they don't ingrain capitalism to a large degree (China) and one is definitely required to have a robust alternative to capitalism
I don't think we've had a singular large-scale example of non-capitalism that wasn't experiencing tremendous external pressure to fail. I really wish people would stop pretending like it's impossible when it's been sabotaged at every attempt.
